[Bug 255664] [patch] syslog.3 - add detail about LOG_PID

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--- Comment #4 from P Kern <des.gaufres at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Fernando Apesteguía from comment #3)

That's correct.  The relevant lines in syslog.c are ...

        /*
         * Provide the process ID regardless of whether LOG_PID has been
         * specified, as it provides valuable information. Many
         * applications tend not to use this, even though they should.
         */
        (void)fprintf(fp, "%d ", getpid());

...

Previous to this, LOG_PID was optional.

The man page only states that LOG_PID is now enabled by default for FreeBSD.

Since LOG_PID used to be optional, some (like me) might reasonably expect that
it would still be possible to disable LOG_PID.

The above patch is meant to adjust the syslog(3) man page to make it clear that
for FreeBSD, LOG_PID is now permanent, that it is no longer optional.

Does that help?

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