From cbc55cc2e7ac0e4214315dc91af5d7d34e3f878e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:07:32 -0500

Subject: [PATCH] journal: fail silently in sd_j_sendv() if journal is

 unavailable

"syslog(3) and sd_journal_print() may largely be used interchangeably

functionality-wise" according to sd_journal_print(3). This socket

should be always available except in rare circumstatances, and we

don't random applications to fail on logging, so let's do what syslog

did. The alternative of forcing all callers to do error handling for

this rare case doesn't really have any benefits, since if they can't

log there isn't much they can do anyway.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023041

---

 src/journal/journal-send.c | 4 ++++

 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/journal/journal-send.c b/src/journal/journal-send.c

index d00e26f..d99ff0c 100644

--- a/src/journal/journal-send.c

+++ b/src/journal/journal-send.c

@@ -305,6 +305,10 @@ _public_ int sd_journal_sendv(const struct iovec *iov, int n) {

         if (k >= 0)

                 return 0;

+        /* Fail silently if the journal is not available */

+        if (errno == ENOENT)

+                return 0;

+

         if (errno != EMSGSIZE && errno != ENOBUFS)

                 return -errno;