[PATCH] syslogd +realpath

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 10:09, Marc Leeman wrote:
> > Yet another question is why syslogd even bothers to do this
> > remove/recreate cycle? What will happen if it will just
> > bind to /dev/log? (the code will be smaller too)
> 
> Probably there is some reason that they did it like this in the past. It
> could be that changing this breaks several crosscompilation
> (buildroot/uclibc) systems. But this is just guessing on my part.

I tried. /dev/log is created by bind() of AF_UNIX.
If it exists, bind() will fail, even if no other process did bind().
That's why removing /dev/log is really needed.
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