Re: inetutils-1.4.1: syslogd still not quite right

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:15:26PM -0700, Michael Deutschmann wrote:
> Your syslogd no longer segfaults when processing accumulated messages at
> bootup (as it did in 1.4.0).  However, shortly after installing 1.4.1, I
> noticed that it still does not log these messages correctly.
> 
> I've studied the code a bit more, and I think I have a partial rewrite
> that fixes this problem, is somewhat easier to understand, and should
> survive pathological output (long lines, embedded NULLs) from the kernel. 

Can you please describe the error condition for the old code?

Thanks,
Marcus

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