Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)

[Christian Franke]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>On Nov 24 18:14, Christian Franke wrote:
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>>In particular, if verbose apps output to event log via syslog(), this 
>>results in many single line event log entries.
>>The native win release of smartd.exe writes multiline eventlog entries 
>>containing all syslog() lines appearing within a second.
>>You might consider this idea also for Cygwin's syslog() implementation.
>>The code from smartd.exe is in the syslog_win32.c module included in the 
>>smartmontools-src package.
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>Sorry, no.  The smartmontools code is GPLed, which is not compatible
>with the Cygwin license.
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>

Sure, but the *idea* to output multiline log entries insn't GPLed (IMO ;-)

>Other than that, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.
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If the idea is considered useful, I might provide a patch ...

Christian


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