Hi,
Robert Vollmert <[email protected]> skribis:
> This is from reading the shepherd code, not verified by test currently.
> Apologies if I’m missing something.
>
> The documentation claims that log-file is appended to:
>
> When @var{log-file} is true, it names the file to which the service's
> standard output and standard error are redirected. @var{log-file} is
> created if it does not exist, otherwise it is appended to.
>
> However, in modules/shepherd/service.scm:
>
> 889 (define make-forkexec-constructor
> […]
> 923 (lambda args
> 924 (define (clean-up file)
> 925 (when file
> 926 (catch 'system-error
> 927 (lambda ()
> 928 (delete-file file))
> 929 (lambda args
> 930 (unless (= ENOENT (system-error-errno args))
> 931 (apply throw args))))))
> 932
> 933 (clean-up pid-file)
> 934 (clean-up log-file)
Ouch, indeed. Commit 7b4c88bac70f0bad82ef70fd5b682a49bc227478 tried to
address that, but I think it pretty much failed at that…
I removed this ‘clean-up’ call in Shepherd commit
6892f638c78a14fedd075f664432757bc015c140.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
