On 5 Apr, Andre John Cruz wrote:
> hello everyone,
>
> i'd like to make a program that logs some output to a text
> file. i have a few questions here:
>
> 1) do i need to implement a locking mechanism? the
> program is web-accessible and many users may be accessing
> it simultaneously. i don't want the log file to get
> corrupted.
>
Yes, of course. Or you can make a daemon program that uses SysVIPC
(or POSIX.1b message queues? are they already supported in Linux?) to
communicate with client processes, queueing each request that would
write to the log file.
> 2) how do i implement syslogging to a different server?
> this is my alternative if i don't like #1. 8)
>
This is similar to the daemon program solution above, except that then
you'd have to develop a simple custom protocol for you to communicate
across the network, and IMO this is not worth the effort. You might as
well use System V IPC to communicate with a local daemon then.
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