Carl Crowder added the comment:
Oh, I understand. Flume doesn't break, it handles the \0 just fine, the problem
is that I ended up with a message with that additional byte on the end. Sorry
for the confusion!
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Carl Crowder added the comment:
Flume certainly could avoid parsing certain values. However, while a syslog
application "should avoid octet values below 32", they are still "legal" [1]. I
don't think that adjusting flume to reject legal values due to legacy behav
New submission from Carl Crowder :
logging.handlers.SysLogHandler contains this class variable and comment:
# curious: when talking to the unix-domain '/dev/log' socket, a
# zero-terminator seems to be required. this string is placed
# into a class variable so that
