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authorGravatar Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>2014-10-14 15:04:31 +0200
committerGravatar Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>2014-10-14 15:04:31 +0200
commitd6720eec30e42f263b0d311b107b752979517717 (patch)
tree18d9f1b897a56d672b62cf6a8eb538594ea44813
parente64b0040cd203659265e884989daf23dd1fcc641 (diff)
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call sd_journal_{seek_tail,previous}() before adding matches
I had some trouble with the code jumping to older entries. Possibly this was caused by adding matches too early.
-rw-r--r--journal-notify.c24
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/journal-notify.c b/journal-notify.c
index 0dbb83a..f733477 100644
--- a/journal-notify.c
+++ b/journal-notify.c
@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
goto out10;
}
+ /* seek to the end of the journal */
+ if ((rc = sd_journal_seek_tail(journal)) < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Failed to seek to the tail: %s\n", strerror(-rc));
+ goto out30;
+ }
+
+ /* we are behind the last entry, so use previous one */
+ if ((rc = sd_journal_previous(journal)) < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Failed to iterate to previous entry: %s\n", strerror(-rc));
+ goto out30;
+ }
+
/* get command line options - part II*/
while ((i = getopt_long(argc, argv, optstring, options_long, NULL)) != -1) {
switch (i) {
@@ -156,18 +168,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
}
}
- /* seek to the end of the journal */
- if ((rc = sd_journal_seek_tail(journal)) < 0) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Failed to seek to the tail: %s\n", strerror(-rc));
- goto out30;
- }
-
- /* we are behind the last entry, so use previous one */
- if ((rc = sd_journal_previous(journal)) < 0) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Failed to iterate to previous entry: %s\n", strerror(-rc));
- goto out30;
- }
-
if (notify_init(program) == FALSE) {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to initialize notify.\n");
rc = EXIT_FAILURE;