On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > 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.
dats too complex. just write to a pipe, ala unix syslog. if you ensure
that writes are atomic (you can use fcntl to do dat) i/o will be
serialized. if its good enuff for syslog, its good enuff for you :
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