[rsyslog] named pipes

[Tom Metro]

david at lang.hm wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> In at least one case I observed that after such an exit, when the
>> reader was restarted, it failed to receive any new messages until
>> sysklogd was restarted, suggesting it had closed the pipe and
>> failed to reopen it when the next applicable message was processed.
> 
> I wonder if the process was down long enough for the pipe to fill up
> and sysklog to decide there was a problem and stop writing to that
> pipe (some versions would do that instead of blocking)

Maybe. Though the buffer would have to have been quite small. I was 
testing with manually triggered message, and pushed through a half dozen 
of 80 characters or less.

  -Tom