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diff --git a/doc/s6-log.html b/doc/s6-log.html index 7f461bc..158dd57 100644 --- a/doc/s6-log.html +++ b/doc/s6-log.html @@ -68,11 +68,13 @@ Currently supported verbosity levels: <li> 1: write alerts, warnings and fatal errors </li> </ul> </li> <li> <tt>-l <em>linelimit</em></tt> : if a log line is longer than -<em>linelimit</em> bytes, cut it in two by inserting a newline. The newline -may appear anywhere after <em>linelimit</em> or more bytes. <em>linelimit</em> -cannot be less than 48. Using this option ensures that an ill-formatted log -stream will not make s6-log uncontrollably eat memory by trying to read and -process an extremely long line in one go. The default is 8192 bytes. </li> +<em>linelimit</em> bytes, split it by inserting a newline after the +<em>linelimit</em>th byte. After the split, the remainder of the line will +also be processed, so it will go through the selection process, timestamping, +etc. <em>linelimit</em> cannot be less than 48, unless it is 0 (which means +infinite). The default is 8192 bytes. Setting <em>linelimit</em> to 0 ensures +that lines will never be split; this may cause important memory consumption +by s6-log if it is fed extremely long lines, so use with caution. </li> </ul> <h2> Logdirs </h2> |