Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?

2018-07-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 6 00:29, Takashi Yano wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 16:52:47 +0200 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hang on. /dev/kmsg was implemented using a mailslot and it was never > > accessible via the syslog(3) interface. The code you removed has > > nothing to do with /dev/kmsg. > >

Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?

2018-07-05 Thread Takashi Yano
Hi Brian, On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:38:08 -0600 Brian Inglis wrote: > Isn't this moot as the supported package is syslog-ng, which seems to work > okay? Not only inetutils syslogd but also syslog-ng does not work in cygwin git HEAD. I confirmed syslog-ng gets back working with the patch I posted.

Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?

2018-07-05 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-07-05 09:29, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 16:52:47 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Hang on. /dev/kmsg was implemented using a mailslot and it was never >> accessible via the syslog(3) interface. The code you removed has >> nothing to do with /dev/kmsg. > > First of all,

Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?

2018-07-05 Thread Takashi Yano
Hi Corinna, On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 16:52:47 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hang on. /dev/kmsg was implemented using a mailslot and it was never > accessible via the syslog(3) interface. The code you removed has > nothing to do with /dev/kmsg. First of all, /dev/kmsg was not guilty. The real

Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?

2018-07-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 4 22:01, Takashi Yano wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:54:20 +0200 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 4 04:44, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > Why was /dev/kmsg deleted from cygwin1.dll in git? > > > Due to this change, syslogd

Re: Why /dev/kmsg was deleted from cygwin1.dll in git?

2018-07-04 Thread Takashi Yano
Hi Corinna, On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:54:20 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 4 04:44, Takashi Yano wrote: > > Why was /dev/kmsg deleted from cygwin1.dll in git? > > Due to this change, syslogd in inetutils package no longer works. > > /dev/kmsg doesn't really give a