Re: Reopening logs - why no relative paths?

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Matthew Kocher <mkocher@pivotallabs.com> wrote:
> > We just spend a couple hours trying to figure out why sending a USR1
> > signal wasn't causing unicorn to reopen logs.  Looking at the source
> > reveals that only files opened with absolute paths are eligible for
> > rotation, the others are silently skipped.
> > 
> > We use the fairly standard practice of always logging to
> > log/unicorn.error.log and creating symlinks to where we'd like the
> > logs to live on individual hosts.  We'll change our configs for the
> > time being, but is there a reason to not reopen the relative paths?
> 
> It's ambiguous due to directory changes[1].  It may be easier now that
> we have the "working_directory" directive now, but configuration changes
> also change (or unset) the "working_directory" which adds to the
> confusion.
> 
> We could try allowing it and see what happens, I suppose...

Just pushed this out, thinking about it more I don't think it'll have an
adverse effect on most installations out there...

>From 6647dcb3afa4c0b16c5fef5bfdf88292e6adf6ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 16:09:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] util: allow relative paths to be rotated

Users keep both pieces if it's broken :)
---
 lib/unicorn/util.rb |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/unicorn/util.rb b/lib/unicorn/util.rb
index 82329eb..cde2563 100644
--- a/lib/unicorn/util.rb
+++ b/lib/unicorn/util.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ module Unicorn::Util
 
     ! fp.closed? &&
       fp.sync &&
-      fp.path[0] == ?/ &&
       (fp.fcntl(Fcntl::F_GETFL) & append_flags) == append_flags
     rescue IOError, Errno::EBADF
       false
@@ -25,10 +24,12 @@ module Unicorn::Util
   # using logrotate(8) (without copytruncate) or similar tools.
   # A +File+ object is considered for reopening if it is:
   #   1) opened with the O_APPEND and O_WRONLY flags
-  #   2) opened with an absolute path (starts with "/")
-  #   3) the current open file handle does not match its original open path
-  #   4) unbuffered (as far as userspace buffering goes, not O_SYNC)
+  #   2) the current open file handle does not match its original open path
+  #   3) unbuffered (as far as userspace buffering goes, not O_SYNC)
   # Returns the number of files reopened
+  #
+  # In Unicorn 3.5.x and earlier, files must be opened with an absolute
+  # path to be considered a log file.
   def self.reopen_logs
     to_reopen = []
     nr = 0
-- 
Eric Wong
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