detect if the journal has been rotated?
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- observability-sre, operating-systems
Research direction
Start with the journal poll() and get_end() entry points mentioned in the issue, then investigate how journald rotation affects the event stream. Determine whether the library exposes a reliable rotation signal or requires reopening after stale polling; done means documenting or implementing a clear detection path.
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Description
I'm using the poll method to tail the journald log in real time. However, when the journal is rotated, I predictably stop getting the next event. I seem to be able to use the get_end() method to detect the end of the journal - so I can re-open the journal after a certain period of stale time. But I was wondering if there is a more reliably method for detecting that the journal has been rotated so I can re-open the journal right away?
Thanks for the helpful library!
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