On Monday 17 March 2008 11:47, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > I have a question from one of our customers. > > Are there any plans to change the SHM layout used by syslogd in the > foreseeable future? Our customer uses a utility which depends on > knowing the layout and he was surprised when the layout changed > after he updated to an up-to-date version of busybox.
This change happened between 1.6.x and 1.7.x versions. Basically, one member of the structure was found superfluous and was deleted. Personally, I am not a big fan of "log to SHM buffer" feature. It requires you to use *special programs* to access it. Your customer was bitten exactly by this problem. Using good old "log to files" approach is way easier, and since Linux has ramfs/tmpfs, you don't need real writable storage to use it. As to immediate solution - using syslogd and logread applets from the same version of busybox should work regardless of SHM buffer format changes. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
