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From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-daemon: fix for rotating logs
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:58:28 +0200
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Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> What syslogd are you using? Perhaps it insists on re-creating the 
>> socket. That might cause the behaviour you're seeing, but then you 
>> should probably see it in a ton of other daemons as well.

Recreating the socket should not cause this to happen either, because
the git-daemon will still hold on to the old inode (even after the file
has been removed).

>This is sysklogd from Ubuntu, compiled for amd64.  The timestamp on 
>/dev/log is older than a month.

I'd still recommend trying to reproduce the problem, then find out which
filedescriptor/file the close is hanging on.
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Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.