Re: writing logfile

[Mat Harris <mat.harris@genestate.com>]

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sorry, did my special trick of not attaching the file. here it is

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:38:10 +0200, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:57:40AM +0000, Mat Harris wrote:
> > in log.h and are used for opening, writing to, and closing a logfile. I have
> > attached log.h.
> 
> You don't.
> 
> > My questions are: How do I tell fopen to create if not there or append if
> > it is? I seem to get an error either way. 
> 
> This is explained in details in fopen(3).
> 
> > And: Why does the fputs cause a segfault? Is there a better way of doing it?
> > I know I do not understand types and casting very well so I may have it
> > totally wrong.
> 
> fputs() is not designed to segfault; you most probably use it wrong. You
> have to show parts of your code to get at least a hint.
> 
> Elias
> 
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int open_log()
{
  char logfile[4096];
  int loghandle;

  strcpy(logfile, WEBROOT);
  strcat(logfile, "/logs/access.log");

  loghandle = open(logfile, O_CREAT);

  if (loghandle < 0)
    {
      fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't open logfile: %s\n", logfile);
      exit(1);
    }
  else
    {
      return loghandle;
    }
}

void close_log(int loghandle)
{
  close(loghandle);
}

void write_log(int loghandle, char string[1024])
{
  fputs(string, loghandle);
}

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