[rsyslog] making a custom input module

[david at lang.hm]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rainer Gerhards wrote:

> 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.

Ok, in the meantime I'll forget about trying to untangle imtcp and see 
what I can do seperatly.

David Lang