On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 17:18:58 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> Add virRotatingFileReader and virRotatingFileWriter objects
> which allow reading & writing from/to files with automation
> rotation to N backup files when a size limit is reached. This
> is useful for guest logging when a guaranteed finite size
> limit is required. Use of external tools like logrotate is
> inadequate since it leaves the possibility for guest to DOS
> the host in between invokations of logrotate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
[...]
> diff --git a/src/util/virrotatingfile.c b/src/util/virrotatingfile.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..840b55f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/src/util/virrotatingfile.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,608 @@
[...]
> +
> +
> +/**
> + * virRotatingFileWriterGetPath:
> + * @file: the file context
> + *
> + * Return the primary file path
> + */
> +const char *virRotatingFileWriterGetPath(virRotatingFileWriterPtr file)
> +{
> + return file->basepath;
> +}
> +
> +
> +/**
> + * virRotatingFileWriterGetINode:
> + * @file: the file context
> + *
> + * Return the inode of the file currently being written to
> + */
> +ino_t virRotatingFileWriterGetINode(virRotatingFileWriterPtr file)
> +{
> + return file->entry->inode;
> +}
> +
> +
> +/**
> + * virRotatingFileWriterGetOffset:
> + * @file: the file context
> + *
> + * Return the offset at which data is currently being written
> + */
> +off_t virRotatingFileWriterGetOffset(virRotatingFileWriterPtr file)
> +{
> + return file->entry->pos;
> +}
I see how you are going to use this. I think the usage pattern is a bit
complicated, but for the purpose it will serve it's probably all right.
ACK
Peter
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