1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util.h b/src/util.h
index d72518b..f2ea23f 100644
--- a/src/util.h
+++ b/src/util.h
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ inline T& REF(const T& val)
 
 extern bool fDebug;
 
+// debug.log is rolled to debug.log.old once it grows past this many bytes
+// (set from -maxdebugfilesize, in MB; 0 disables the check). See the roll
+// site in OutputDebugStringF() below.
+extern int64 nMaxDebugFileSize;
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Categorized, burst-collapsing logging
 //
@@ -391,6 +396,30 @@ inline int OutputDebugStringF(const char* pszFormat, ...)
                 strDebugFile = "debug.log";
         }
         FILE* fileout = fopen(strDebugFile.c_str(), "a");
+        if (fileout && nMaxDebugFileSize > 0)
+        {
+            // Roll an overgrown debug.log before adding to it. Nothing in the
+            // tree shrinks this file once the process is running (there is no
+            // ShrinkDebugFile, and even Bitcoin's only ran at startup), so a
+            // node that stays up for months grows the log without bound --
+            // production hit ~2 GiB. The file is opened and closed per line,
+            // so a rename is safe here: the next line simply reopens the
+            // path. One generation is kept as debug.log.old; logrotate
+            // (contrib/logrotate/) handles anything longer-term.
+            int nSize = GetFilesize(fileout);
+            if (nSize >= 0 && (int64)nSize > nMaxDebugFileSize)
+            {
+                fclose(fileout);
+                string strOldFile = strDebugFile + ".old";
+                remove(strOldFile.c_str()); // rename() won't clobber on Windows
+                rename(strDebugFile.c_str(), strOldFile.c_str());
+                fileout = fopen(strDebugFile.c_str(), "a");
+                if (fileout)
+                    fprintf(fileout,
+                        "debug.log grew past %lld MB; previous contents moved to debug.log.old (-maxdebugfilesize)\n",
+                        (long long)(nMaxDebugFileSize / 1024 / 1024));
+            }
+        }
         if (fileout)
         {
             va_list arg_ptr;