[Bug 60448] Re: .xsession_errors file grows out of control & saturates disk space

[manu]

@Martin,

Can't we add a filter before redirecting to the error file? Instead of:

exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1

we could have

exec | /usr/bin/fifo "2048" "$ERRFILE" 2>&1

fifo is a simple program (a script or even C program) that reads from
stdin and writes to an output file while the file size is under a limit
of a given number of KB, then it deletes full lines from the start of
the file until the file is under the limit again, so it can keep
writing. It is pointless to have a xsession-error of more than 2MB (even
1MB seems already too much).

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.xsession_errors file grows out of control & saturates disk space
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/60448
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