On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Afaik this doesn't work.  Take a look at the manpage:
> 
>        void syslog( int priority, char *format, ...)
> 
> Now look what you've given them?
> 
> priority logical_OR facility
>   as first argument
> 
> 
> Let's take a look at the openlog() function:
> 
>        void openlog( char *ident, int option, int  facility)
> 
> Do we have  facility with the numerical value of zero?  I doubt.
> 

 It *does* work, I've cut and paste this code from the source of the
'logger' program, right form the Debian sources :) Of course it does not
work when it's linked with libstdc++, which is the issue...
 Furthermore I've checked the glibc source hunting for the bug
(unsuccessfully) and the syntax '(priority | facility)' is legal :)

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Farzad FARID
Administrateur Reseau
Publicis Technology


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