Hi Rainer, I don't use that and in general, I wouldn't bother to keep such "unintended&undocumented feature backwards compatibility" available.
Best regards, Radu 2013/10/14 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > I would like to get some feedback. As you may know, I am currently > refactoring imfile to support inotify. One side-effect of the previous > polling implementation causes me some headache: > > Currently, imfile simply tries to open the file during each polling > interval. As a consequence, it is able to monitor files even if the > directory path leading to them is not always available (most importantly it > must not be available on startup). > > Building this behaviour with inotify requires quite some code. So question > now: do you think this is essential functionality? Is somebody actually > using it? > > Side-Note: I call it "side-effect", as this behaviour was never spec'ed, > intended, or designed -- it just happens this way due to how polling > currently works. > > Feedback appreciated. > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
