Re: [PATCH] daemon: send stderr of service programs to the syslog

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

They could, if they were broken.  :-)

IIRC only upload-pack produces progress (from pack-objects).
It does so by using a pipe on fd 2, and either copying it down
to the client via side-band, or discarding it.  So progress data
shouldn't ever appear on upload-pack's own fd 2, which means you
won't get it in this syslog thing.

But I have to wonder, why are we doing this?  Why can't we teach the
individual server program to record its error to the syslog before
it aborts?  Are we looking for SIGSEGV or something?  Its only the
daemon program staying around in memory, but that's a lot of little
daemons doing nothing waiting for their children to terminate.
Seems like a waste to me.
 

Actually, even logging signals would be useful, so I think this makes
sense.  The daemon process is pretty trivial compared to the rest of the
stuff being spawned.

	-hpa