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Subject:	Re: 1.7.0-67: syslog() not working properly - possible bug in writev() ?
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On Dec  2 10:31, Christian Franke wrote:
> syslog() produces bogus lines in /var/log/messages.
> 
> Testcase (with syslog-ng):
> 
> $ echo -e 'one\ntwo\nthree' | logger -t test
> 
> $ tail /var/log/messages
> ...
> Dec  2 10:12:31 localhost kernel:
> Dec  2 10:12:31 localhost test: one
> Dec  2 10:12:31 localhost kernel:
> Dec  2 10:12:31 localhost test: two
> Dec  2 10:12:31 localhost kernel:
> Dec  2 10:12:31 localhost test: three
> 
> I presume that the root of the problem is that the
> 
>   writev(fd, { {"<PRI style="margin:0px;">", . }, { "MSG", . } }, 2)
> 
> used within syslog() sends "<PRI style="margin:0px;">" and "MSG" in two
> separate datagrams to /dev/log.

Probably not.  The "kernel:" message is generated if something is
available on /dev/kmsg, which shouldn't be the case.  The only message
type generated there are exceptions catched by Cygwin.  I'll have a look
into it.  Thanks for the report.


Corinna

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