In the last episode (Oct 30), Mark Linimon said:
> Synopsis: [PATCH] syslog is not thread-safe
>
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-standards->freebsd-bugs
> Responsible-Changed-By: linimon
> Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Oct 30 07:15:43 GMT 2004
> Responsible-Changed-Why:
> This sounds more like a kern bug than something for the standards folks.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72394
Well, I guess the "unp_connect" message is a kernel bug, but that's a
very minor part of the PR, and is marked with an "XXXRW: Temporary
debugging printf" comment anyway.
The larger issue is the lack of locking in the syslog family of libc
functions, which POSIX requires.
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Dan Nelson
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