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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: syslog(3) uses sendto() rather than send() - interaction with chroot()
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Date: 20 Jan 88 18:56:57 GMT
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Keywords: chroot sendto send syslog

A call to openlog() is not necessary;  it works just as it did before.  If
the user calls syslog() without first calling openlog(), syslog() will call
openlog() first to set-up the socket.

The only difference is that now the UNIX domain socket is connect()ed
whenever openlog() gets called.


 

Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming