Re: Updating syslog(3), syslogd(8) to support RFC-5424

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:19:19AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> Personally, I think message bodies should be encoding-agnostic octet
> strings, not character strings at all as far as syslog(3) and syslog(8)
> are concerned; I'd just remove the "c &= 0177".

I presume something else stop control characters and escape sequences
being sent to the console (and other terminals).

        David

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