On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:21:35PM -0500, Shafik Yaghmour wrote:
> So if you have a high system load it is okay to have some of the
> syslog messages lost? Hmm, I dunno, IMHO it is never okay, I mean why
> should you open up the opportunity at all. You know, security based on
> something being "not so prone to failure" doesn't exactly make me feel
> warm and cozy.
As long as syslog uses a connected socket (which it does), and doesn't
flag MSG_NOWAIT (which it doesn't), there isn't anything in the kernel
source that looks like the code will fail under cpu/memory/whatever
contention.
Just because UDP datagrams are unreliable that doesn't mean that UNIX
datagrams are too.
Olaf
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