On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
Hi all,
without any pressing need, I'd like to share with you some thoughts of a
potential future rsyslog multi-config system:
http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/04/rsyslog-config-reload-random-thoughts.html
This is NOT something I intend to fully implement soon, but I am working a
bit on paving the way.
my first thought (while still reading the post) is that you really
shouldn't need to load the modules to parse the config file into a memory
structure.
you will need to load the module to _validate_ the config (to see if all
the config items are valid and contain valid data types)
but the config language should be such that the structure of the config
and the process of parsing the config options into a memory structure
should be a separate step before doing the validation.
I think this should significantly simplify your task compared to doing the
validation and parsing at the same time.
among the other benifits, this lets you have one validation engine, even
if you support multiple config languages (old + new for example)
David Lang
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