svn commit: r332100 - in head: . lib/libc/gen sys/sys

[Colin Percival]

On 4/6/18 6:00 AM, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Fri Apr  6 13:00:45 2018
> New Revision: 332100
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/332100
> 
> Log:
>   Let syslog(3) use RFC 5424.
>   
>   With r332099 changing syslogd(8) to parse RFC 5424 formatted syslog
>   messages, go ahead and also change the syslog(3) libc function to
>   generate them. Compared to RFC 3164, RFC 5424 has various advantages,
>   such as sub-second precision for log entry timestamps.
>   
>   As this change could have adverse effects when not updating syslogd(8)
>   or using a different system logging daemon, add a notice to UPDATING and
>   increase __FreeBSD_version.
>   
>   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14926

It looks like this changes the format in which messages are written to
stderr via the LOG_PERROR flag; this is visible if you run
# echo foo | logger -s
which used to print "root: foo" but now prints "root 40038 - - foo".

Was this intentional?

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