[UPHPU] Re: Using named pipe for MySQL error log

[Lonnie Olson]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:10 -0600, Richard K Miller wrote:
> If MySQL logs to a named pipe, and "no one is there to hear it," does  
> it affect database performance?

It could.  mkfifo creates blocking named pipes.  Meaning a reader will
block, and wait for someone else to start writing to it.  Also
vice-versa, the writer will wait for a reader.
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/named_pipes.html

A blocking log file sounds really bad to me.

--lonnie