Re: Is qmail's log method inefficient?

[Jos Backus]

On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 08:53:42PM +0200, Balazs Nagy wrote:
> I didn't try it out on other platforms (UnixWare 7.1 will be done), but on
> Linux errorsto didn't work after fifo generated the named pipe.  Apparently
> because of waiting for the fifo process to poll out the log info.

jos:/tmp% uname -a
FreeBSD jos.bugworks.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #3: Sat May 22
22:15:50 CEST 1999     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/JOS  i386
jos:/tmp% fifo fifo | cat -n &
[1] 539 540
jos:/tmp% errorsto fifo sh -c 'date 1>&2'
     1  Sun May 23 14:32:32 CEST 1999
jos:/tmp% errorsto fifo sh -c 'date 1>&2'
     2  Sun May 23 14:32:34 CEST 1999
jos:/tmp%                         

Works fine here...

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