From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761143AbYFIO1Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:27:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752262AbYFIO1O (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:27:14 -0400 Received: from mail.bluehost.com ([74.220.195.75]:59531 "HELO officemail.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751765AbYFIO1N (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:27:13 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:27:13 EDT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25-4] getdelays.c: signal handling for log rotation From: Scott Wiersdorf To: Andi Kleen Cc: Balbir Singh , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, matt@bluehost.com In-Reply-To: <4849E09D.6090804@firstfloor.org> References: <20080605194334.GA56830@perlcode.org> <87d4muu0k2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080606204704.GA4330@perlcode.org> <4849E09D.6090804@firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:20:29 -0600 Message-Id: <1213021229.4645.67.camel@tub.office.bluehost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 03:13 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Scott Wiersdorf wrote: > > I still think a single handler is elegant enough though, and works > > better with many log rotation systems that want to send a single > > signal to a pid (it's what we need where I'm working now, hence the > > patch). > > Well in general it would be cool if there was nicer free userland for > the obscure but useful delay accounting. The code in Documentation > is really not much more than a example. Do you have something downloadable? I don't. I'm really not much of a C programmer; I'm just hacking on this file for our company because we have a use for it. I'm all for it going into userland, but don't have the time to be responsible for that. Scott