Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios appending when told to write?
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:41 am
Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> I just seen this from a strace:
>
> open("/path/to/service-perfdata.fifo",
> O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0666
>
> My /path/to/service-perfdata.fifo is set to be oppened normally instead of
> O_APPEND by this directive:
>
> service_perfdata_file_mode=w
>
> Is that a bug?
>
> Thomas
Looks like the system is adding the O_APPEND flag, since Nagios just
used fopen() with "a" or "w" values. Is it working okay? AFAIK,
appending to a pipe/fifo should work just fine.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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> I just seen this from a strace:
>
> open("/path/to/service-perfdata.fifo",
> O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0666
>
> My /path/to/service-perfdata.fifo is set to be oppened normally instead of
> O_APPEND by this directive:
>
> service_perfdata_file_mode=w
>
> Is that a bug?
>
> Thomas
Looks like the system is adding the O_APPEND flag, since Nagios just
used fopen() with "a" or "w" values. Is it working okay? AFAIK,
appending to a pipe/fifo should work just fine.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.nagios.org
This post was automatically imported from historical nagios-devel mailing list archives
Original poster: [email protected]