A day in the life of a reactionary programmer

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Why don't you just rename the file if it's too big and call it a day?

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    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Gotcha. Hey thanks man, I appreciate you taking the time to explain it.

    [–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Yes, it's "rolled over" by renaming it.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    What I'm asking is why is this not 2 lines?

    If filesize(logfile) >= arbitrary_amount
    Rename(logfile, current_date + ".log")

    It's been a long time since I've done this shit, maybe I'm missing something you're doing

    [–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    The only reason for more code is to allow multiple rolling backup files. Here is the code, it is quite simple.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I just didn't get why anything was moved, but x0 said it had to do with file descriptor staying open. That makes sense.

    [–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That only makes sense if this is done by an outside process. Since I am doing it in code in the same process, I just close the file descriptor, move the file, and open a new file descriptor. So none of the issues mentioned by x0x7 apply.