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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/logger.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/logger.h b/include/logger.h index f6f2f1e4f..2a075431e 100644 --- a/include/logger.h +++ b/include/logger.h @@ -14,17 +14,7 @@ #ifndef LOGGER_H #define LOGGER_H -/** This class implements a nonblocking writer. - * Most people writing an ircd give little thought to their disk - * i/o. On a congested system, disk writes can block for long - * periods of time (e.g. if the system is busy and/or swapping - * a lot). If we just use a blocking fprintf() call, this could - * block for undesirable amounts of time (half of a second through - * to whole seconds). We DO NOT want this, so we make our logfile - * nonblocking and hook it into the SocketEngine. - * NB: If the operating system does not support nonblocking file - * I/O (linux seems to, as does freebsd) this will default to - * blocking behaviour. +/** Simple wrapper providing periodic flushing to a disk-backed file. */ class CoreExport FileWriter { |