[libvirt] [PATCH 7/9] Add systemd journal support

[Eric Blake]

On 09/28/2012 04:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 09/27/2012 10:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> +    /* Message was too large, so dump to temporary file
>>> +     * and pass an FD to the journal
>>> +     */
>>> +
>>> +    if ((buffd = mkostemp(path, O_CLOEXEC|O_RDWR)) < 0)
>>
>> Is mkostemp async-signal safe?  But if it isn't, I don't know how else
>> to generate a safe file name.  Maybe we create ourselves a safe
>> temporary directory at process start where we don't care about the async
>> safety issues, and then in this function, we track a static counter that
>> we increment each time we create a new file within that directory.
> 
> I've looked the glibc source and the only functions they use are
> open() and gettimeofday(), and the latter isn't actually used on
> most architectures, instead it uses inline asm to read a CPU
> timesource like the TSC. So IMHO, since this will be protected by
> a #ifdef __linux__ we will be safe in using it.

Sure, but add a big fat comment explaining our choice, so that people
reading the code later remember our discussion :)

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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