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Diffstat (limited to 'src/lib/err/torerr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lib/err/torerr.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/err/torerr.c b/src/lib/err/torerr.c index 2c4a10a5bb..f460fd8379 100644 --- a/src/lib/err/torerr.c +++ b/src/lib/err/torerr.c @@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ tor_log_get_sigsafe_err_fds(const int **out) * other emergency condition. Ignore any beyond the first * TOR_SIGSAFE_LOG_MAX_FDS. * + * These fds must remain open even after the log module has shut down. (And + * they should remain open even while logs are being reconfigured.) Therefore, + * any fds closed by the log module should be dup()ed, and the duplicate fd + * should be given to the err module in fds. In particular, the log module + * closes the file log fds, but does not close the stdio log fds. + * * If fds is NULL or n is 0, clears the list of error fds. */ void |