Re: New syslog openlog option?

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Apr 15,  8:36am, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: New syslog openlog option?

| On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 06:07:58PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > What do you want to happen? syslog() to block?
| 
| In this special case: yes - or have init use some other means of communication
| (only for the case that the very first getty doesn't work).
| But as I said, it is a very special case hack and I'm not sure it's worth it.
| 
| (Of course once I understood that it's just random message corruption I had
| other means to debug the original problem, so I don't need this for further
| debugging, but brought it up in case there is some easy, non hacky solution
| to avoid the next person running into the same issue.)

I don't think that it is worth it because one can hit ^S on the console
and DoS init.

christos