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Diffstat (limited to 'sysklogd/syslogd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysklogd/syslogd.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysklogd/syslogd.c b/sysklogd/syslogd.c index 2bf5b5c80..da63ced42 100644 --- a/sysklogd/syslogd.c +++ b/sysklogd/syslogd.c @@ -536,10 +536,20 @@ static void do_syslogd(void) while (1) { if (sz == 0) goto read_again; - if (G.recvbuf[sz-1]) + /* man 3 syslog says: "A trailing newline is added when needed". + * However, neither glibc nor uclibc do this: + * syslog(prio, "test") sends "test\0" to /dev/log, + * syslog(prio, "test\n") sends "test\n\0", + * IOW: newline is passed verbatim! + * I take it to mean that it's syslogd's job + * to make those look identical in the log files */ + if (G.recvbuf[sz-1] && G.recvbuf[sz-1] != '\n') break; sz--; } + /* Maybe we need to add '\n' here, not later? + * It looks like stock syslogd does send '\n' over network, + * but we do not (see sendto below) */ G.recvbuf[sz] = '\0'; /* make sure it *is* NUL terminated */ /* TODO: maybe suppress duplicates? */ |