Re: fsync on large files

Zygo Blaxell (uixjjji1@umail.furryterror.org)
17 Feb 1999 23:15:14 -0500

In article <7aff8r$goe$1@work.noris.net>,
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de> wrote:
> uixjjji1@umail.furryterror.org (Zygo Blaxell) writes:
>> Now if only I could send syslog packets to the broadcast address.
>> That would be neat.
>>
>So send to a multicast address -- that has a couple of advantages:
>- no need to be root,

You don't need to be root, you just need to have the application call
setsockopt() and request broadcast. syslogd doesn't do that for you. :-(

-- 
Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, zygob@corel.ca (work),
zblaxell@furryterror.org (play).  It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE!
Size of 'diff -Nurw [...] winehq corel' as of Wed Feb 17 22:14:00 EST 1999
Lines/files:  In 1 / 0, Out 33034 / 418, Both 33034 / 418


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