Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> However, the problem is that in backporting it we'd make a slight
>> behaviour change - the log file just gets LF instead of CRLF line
>> endings. I'm inclined to say that's a better result than living with the
>> bug, though.
>>
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> Can't we add back the CRLF combo when writing the file out from the
> syslogger process?
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Yes, you're right. I can do this by setting text mode on the syslogFile.
I'll have a patch for review shortly.
Note: this is behaviour we definitely won't want for CSVlogs, because it
will translate embedded LF as well as LF at the end of a log line. This
whole little mess chewed up all the time I wanted to spend yesterday
making progress on CSVlogs :-(
cheers
andrew