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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Patches for lib/libc/syslog.c
Message-ID: <8667@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 21:09:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.8667
Posted: Sun Sep 20 21:09:36 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Sep-87 04:09:23 EDT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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There is a problem with these patches.  According to syslog(3),
LOG_CONS `... is safe to use in daemon processes that have no
controlling terminal since syslog will fork before opening the
console'.  This version of syslog() does not do that.

My own solution is simply to allow syslog() with LOG_CONS to
fail if the connect() fails and the program using syslog does
a chdir().  This is not right either, but does not attach the
program to the console.
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