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syslogd: Unify unlink/truncate + unlock log-rotation logic

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Always unlink + reopen, rather than sometimes using ftruncate();
using a single code-path reduces the opportunity for either
mistakes or duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Judson Rosen <jrosen@harvestai.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Joshua Judson Rosen 2014-05-20 01:02:20 -04:00 committed by Denys Vlasenko
parent b905d6c2ea
commit 9aa6ffb22b
1 changed files with 11 additions and 19 deletions
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sysklogd/syslogd.c
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@ -648,32 +648,24 @@ static void log_locally(time_t now, char *msg, logFile_t *log_file)
}
/* newFile == "f.0" now */
rename(log_file->path, newFile);
/* Incredibly, if F and F.0 are hardlinks, POSIX
* _demands_ that rename returns 0 but does not
* remove F!!!
* (hardlinked F/F.0 pair was observed after
* power failure during rename()).
* Ensure old file is gone:
*/
unlink(log_file->path);
#ifdef SYSLOGD_WRLOCK
fl.l_type = F_UNLCK;
fcntl(log_file->fd, F_SETLKW, &fl);
#endif
close(log_file->fd);
goto reopen;
}
/* We don't get here unless G.logFileRotate == 0;
* in which case don't bother unlinking and reopening,
* just truncate and reset size to match:
/* We may or may not have just renamed the file away;
* if we didn't rename because we aren't keeping any backlog,
* then it's time to clobber the file. If we did rename it...,
* incredibly, if F and F.0 are hardlinks, POSIX _demands_
* that rename returns 0 but does not remove F!!!
* (hardlinked F/F.0 pair was observed after
* power failure during rename()).
* So ensure old file is gone in any case:
*/
ftruncate(log_file->fd, 0);
log_file->size = 0;
unlink(log_file->path);
#ifdef SYSLOGD_WRLOCK
fl.l_type = F_UNLCK;
fcntl(log_file->fd, F_SETLKW, &fl);
#endif
close(log_file->fd);
goto reopen;
}
log_file->size +=
#endif