[systemd-devel] Unbuffered stderr for my systemd service?

[WANG Chao]

On 07/15/13 at 10:46pm, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 15.07.13 17:56, WANG Chao (chaowang at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a service (a script) running under systemd and need its stderr to
> > be output'd immediately, not line buffered. I tried serveral ways but
> > didn't work out. I hope to get some feedback here :)
> 
> This is not supported. Logging doesn't deal in individual
> characters, really, but in log lines. Syslog doesn't do that, and
> neither does the Journal.
> 
> And we will never support that, as allowing this would require us to
> always store the context a character was printed in so that lines could
> later be reassembled. But we cannot really do that.
> 
> So, I fear I have to tell you that this is not supported and never
> will... 

I understand that. Record the context of a character is printed would
never be a good idea. But still, I feel pity about line buffered stderr
stream in Journal :(

> 
> > Here's my foobar.service:
> 
> (Humm, please do not use "--" on a single line in the middle of an
> email, that's indication for many MUAs that this is where the signature
> starts, and they chop this off when replying...)

Sorry about "--", never thought that would be an issue. Thanks for
telling!

WANG Chao