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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