[rsyslog] making a custom input module

[Rainer Gerhards]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 00:16 -0700, david at lang.hm wrote:
> the simpler the better. I'm pretty rusty with my C and I never did much 
> network or threaded programming in the first place, so while I can debug 
> programs in any language, I'm currently not much beyond the cut-n-past 
> stage here.
> 
> it sounds like I should not start from imtcp.
> 
> however when I looked at imrelp it looked like everything in in the relp 
> libraries, and I was hoping to avoid diving into them for the moment.
> 
> are any of the other tcp-based transports in better shape? or should I 
> start from scratch with the imtemplate plugin?

Bear a bit with me (but ping me if I don't reply by mid-week). I'll have
a look and recommend the way I think is best given the constraints.

Rainer