Re: openlog

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@...>]

Hi Matthew,

On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:29 PM, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 August 2013 14:13, dcharno <dcharno@comcast.net> wrote:
>> The GNU libc manual says the pointer to ident in openlog is retained and the memory shouldn't be freed. I noticed the openlog binding in luaposix doesn't do anything special to make sure the string isn't garbage collected and neither do most FFI bindings for syslog. I haven't experienced a problem (yet) so maybe it isn't an issue. How do people handle this in their bindings.
> 
> This is one of the reasons we're not using luaposix in Prosody yet. We
> use this code, which works for us so far:
> http://hg.prosody.im/trunk/file/e8c79796ead9/util-src/pposix.c#l163
> 
> It would be nice to handle this well in luaposix.

I don't personally use all the calls available in luaposix, but I am very happy to apply patches to improve the parts I don't use myself… or even write patches for those parts if someone sends me a test (any smallish self contained Lua snippet is perfect!) that will verify my implementation is correct :)

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT vaughan DOT pe)

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