def __init__(self):
		logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.__init__(self, '/dev/log')
		self._tail = gevent.queue.Queue()
		self._worker = None

	def emit(self, record):
		# my syslog is broken and cannot into UTF-8 BOM
		record.msg = str(record.msg)
		self._tail.put(record)
		if self._worker == None:
			# in case queue is empty we will spawn new worker
			# all workers are logged so we can kill them on close()
			self._worker = gevent.spawn(self._writer)

	def _writer(self):
		# here we are locking the queue so we can be sure we are the only one
		print('syslog start')
		while not self._tail.empty():
			logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.emit(self, self._tail.get())
		self._worker = None
		print('syslog end')

	def close(self):
		if self._worker != None:
			gevent.kill(self._worker)
		logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.close(self)

logger = logging.getLogger('squidTag')