Re: WSAPI vs. events

[Louis Mamakos <louie@...>]

On Apr 13, 2011, at 2:32 AM, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:58, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 13 April 2011 00:47, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:59, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Now I rotated the log file. How do I tell the WSAPI service to let go
>>>> old log file and open a new one?
> 
>>> So, I just got ignored? :-)
> 
>> The obvious answer to me was to use signals. However this answer
>> seemed so obvious I gathered there was a reason it didn't apply in
>> your case.
> 
> It did not — since signals do not work with WSAPI properly (or I
> failed to write working code).
> 
>> Maybe you can explain the problem more concretely if this is the case?
>> (I appreciate your original post contained details but I feel I must
>> be missing something of the problem).
> 
> Well, I do not know what else to say.
> 
> Here is a link to yet another my ignored post from a year ago, that
> somewhat explains the problem with signals:
> 
> http://lists.luaforge.net/pipermail/kepler-project/2010-April/004158.html
> 
> Maybe I just should try again?
> 
> Alexander.
> 

If you have lfs available, perhaps you could periodically stat() the log file pathname, and see if it's major/minor device numbers changed?  That would allow you to detect that it has been renamed and a new file at the name has replaced it.

Louis Mamakos