Greg Hudson wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:51 -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
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>>>How does the receiving string know when one log message ends and  
>>>another one begins?
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>[I meant to write "receiving stream" there.]
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>>I apologize for my ignorance.  Why is this important?
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>>A process wants to push a message (some number of bytes, usually  
>>ending in \n) into a stream_t.  Who cares where the message  
>>'dividers' are?
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>If you're logging via syslog(), you want to call syslog() with a
>complete log message, and not include a newline.  I assume Windows event
>logging is similar.
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It is. And by the way, _the same_ is true for log files on disk: you 
want to use a single write() (or WriteFile() on Windows -- 
apr_file_write(), whatever) for a single log message, to ensure that 
messages from different processes remain separate.
-- Brane
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Received on Fri Jul 22 09:26:15 2005