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Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd



* Pierre Habouzit:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:15:58AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:25:34PM +0200, SZALAY Attila wrote:
>> > And I think that the real question is that there is place in Debian for
>> > a multithread/process system logging daemon (against the singlethread
>> > ones) or not. And I think that this dispute is onlt theoretical. :)
>> 
>> My original question was why you would mention multi-threaded in the
>> short description of rsyslog?
>
>   To scare people away.

Reality check, please.  Many non-multithreaded programs suffer from
concurrency issues as well.  In fact, it's easier to handle signals
such as SIGHUP from a multi-threaded program because signal handling
is inherently concurrent.



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