On Monday 06 October 2008 09:21:53 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > on my BB 1.10.4, running "syslogd --help" makes no mention > of the "-m" option, even though it clearly works. i notice > that the usage line for that has been commented out in > usage.h. not sure if that's an oversight or what.
It is not mentioned because it is accepted but ignored: syslogd.c: /* MARK code is not very useful, is bloat, and broken: * can deadlock if alarmed to make MARK while writing to IPC buffer * (semaphores are down but do_mark routine tries to down them again) */ #undef SYSLOGD_MARK When the bug was noticed, I decided that disabling it is a quickest solution, which coincidentally also makes code smaller. Yes, we lose --MARK-- feature, but is this feature useful? How? If there will be users which will actually miss it, then it can be fixed and enabled. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
