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Thursday, May 29, 2008

more reliability for TCP syslog?

Martin Schütte posted an interesting approach to solving the syslog/plain TCP unreliability issue in his blog:

Reliable TCP Reconect made Easy

In short, he tries to do a non-blocking recv() from the connection to see if the remote peer has shut it down. This may work and I will give it a try. However, as of my understanding it will NOT solve the issue of unreliability because of broken connections. I have to admit that I also think there is still a race condition (what if the server closes the connection after the client has done the recv() but before the send()...

I'll report back as soon as I have some real-life data. It's an interesting approach in any case and good to know somebody else is working on the same issues. That will hopefully bring us to a better overall solution :)

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