Re: Making syslog output pretty and smaller binaries

[Timo Buhrmester <fstd.lkml%gmail.com@localhost>]

> The output isn't designed to be parsed any more than the output of
> /etc/rc.d/samba restart is.
IIRC the output of rc.d scripts is in fact supposed to be parsed by
the postprocessing routines in rc.subr.


> Would you say that both sending these informative messages to stdout is
> a bug?
Due to the above, no.  However, if the server binary itself gibbers
something to stdout that is not "designed to be parsed" before forking,
I'd call it a bug, yes.

Not really sure what point you're trying to make, though, and I'm
definitely not the most authoritative source on this, so if someone
else wants to chime in/set things straight...

Cheers,
Timo