syslog

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:15:18AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> ache at freebsd.org wrote 8 years ago in src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c:
> 
> p += sprintf(p, "%.15s ", ctime(&now) + 4);
> 
> What is '+ 4' for?

quite likely it is to skip the 'day of week' field -- the ctime
manpage says

     The ctime() function adjusts the time value for the current time zone in
     the same manner as localtime(), and returns a pointer to a 26-character
     string of the form:

           Thu Nov 24 18:22:48 1986\n\0

     All the fields have constant width.

so it makes sense

	cheers
	luigi

> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
> 
> Eugene Grosbein
> 
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