Hi, The the inlined patch aims to document the new sendsyslog2 system call, and add the corresponding MLINKS entry. Note that I do not put "syslog(3) logopt LOG_CONS" or "syslog(3) LOG_CONS flag" because actually in syslog(3) it says that it redirects to "/dev/console", so I thought that could be misleading as sendsyslog2(2) does not open the device, it is a direct channel.
Comments? Regards, Rafael Neves Patch: Index: lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc,v retrieving revision 1.137 diff -u -p -r1.137 Makefile.inc --- lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc 25 Nov 2015 00:01:21 -0000 1.137 +++ lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc 18 Feb 2016 21:31:31 -0000 @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ MLINKS+=select.2 pselect.2 MLINKS+=select.2 FD_ISSET.3 select.2 FD_ZERO.3 MLINKS+=select.2 FD_SET.3 select.2 FD_CLR.3 MLINKS+=send.2 sendmsg.2 send.2 sendto.2 +MLINKS+=sendsyslog.2 sendsyslog2.2 MLINKS+=setpgid.2 setpgrp.2 MLINKS+=setresuid.2 getresgid.2 setresuid.2 getresuid.2 MLINKS+=setresuid.2 setresgid.2 Index: lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -p -r1.4 sendsyslog.2 --- lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2 10 Sep 2015 17:55:21 -0000 1.4 +++ lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2 18 Feb 2016 21:31:31 -0000 @@ -18,19 +18,40 @@ .Dt SENDSYSLOG 2 .Os .Sh NAME -.Nm sendsyslog +.Nm sendsyslog , +.Nm sendsyslog2 .Nd send a message to syslogd .Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/syslog.h .In sys/types.h .Ft int .Fn sendsyslog "const void *msg" "size_t len" +.Ft int +.Fn sendsyslog2 "const void *msg" "size_t len" "int flags" .Sh DESCRIPTION +.Pp +The .Fn sendsyslog -is used to transmit a +and +.Fn sendsyslog2 +functions are used to transmit a .Xr syslog 3 formatted message direct to .Xr syslogd 8 without requiring the allocation of a socket. +.Pp +The +.Fa flags +argument of +.Fn sendsyslog2 +accepts the +.Dv LOG_CONS +flag. If +.Dv LOG_CONS +is specified, and +.Xr syslogd 8 +is not accepting messages, the message will be sent directly to the +console. This is used internally by .Xr syslog_r 3 , so that messages can be sent during difficult situations. @@ -41,7 +62,9 @@ so that messages can be sent during diff can fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er ENOTCONN -The message cannot be sent, likely because +The message cannot be sent to +.Xr syslogd(8) , +likely because .Xr syslogd 8 is not running. .El @@ -53,3 +76,7 @@ The .Fn sendsyslog function call appeared in .Ox 5.6 . +The +.Fn sendsyslog2 +function call appeared in +.Ox 5.9 .
