[exim-dev] [Bug 728] SMTP listener keeping log file open for…

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Old-Topics: [exim-dev] [Bug 728] New: SMTP listener keeping log file open for days
Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 728] SMTP listener keeping log file open for days
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728

--- Comment #18 from Heiko Schlittermann <hs@???> ---
(In reply to Andreas Pflug from comment #13)
> How about solution #4
> - close all logfiles when a name change is detected and a new logfile has to
> be opened?
>
> I don't quite see the reasoning why an old logfile should stay open when it
> has been detected as obsolete and a new one is already being opened.


That's what exim does already. Before writing to the log, the
inode_of("mainlog")
is compared with the inode we opened. If they differ, the current log is closed
and a new one starts.

In other words, as soon as it is detected as old, it gets re-opened.
Unfortunenately it detected on write access only.

If you do not write to the mainlog, this detection might be delayed forever...

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