From a5cd509be736fcff3c8ae3104712d2fe85776416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:44:57 +0100
Subject: bugfix: named pipes did no longer work (they always got an open
 error)

this was a regression from the omfile rewrite in 4.5.0
---
 tools/omfile.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tools')

diff --git a/tools/omfile.c b/tools/omfile.c
index 9d6b3d1d..bea94e99 100644
--- a/tools/omfile.c
+++ b/tools/omfile.c
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 /* omfile.c
  * This is the implementation of the build-in file output module.
  *
- * Handles: eTypeCONSOLE, eTypeTTY, eTypeFILE, eTypePIPE
- *
  * NOTE: read comments in module-template.h to understand how this file
  *       works!
  *
@@ -667,6 +665,11 @@ CODESTARTparseSelectorAct
         case '|':
 	case '/':
 		CODE_STD_STRING_REQUESTparseSelectorAct(1)
+		/* we now have the same semantics for files and pipes, but we need to skip over
+		 * the pipe indicator traditionally seen in config files...
+		 */
+		if(*p == '|')
+			++p;
 		CHKiRet(cflineParseFileName(p, (uchar*) pData->f_fname, *ppOMSR, 0, OMSR_NO_RQD_TPL_OPTS,
 				               (pszTplName == NULL) ? (uchar*)"RSYSLOG_FileFormat" : pszTplName));
 		pData->bDynamicName = 0;
-- 
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