On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:49:43 -0600, "Theo de Raadt" wrote:
> > > How about "discard resources", or something more nebulous. Especially
> > > if it frightens signal handler authors.
> >
> > I understand what you are getting at but that seems so vague as to
> > be unhelpful.
>
> Precisely how is
> > How about "discard resources", or something more nebulous. Especially
> > if it frightens signal handler authors.
>
> I understand what you are getting at but that seems so vague as to
> be unhelpful.
Precisely how is it vague?
The manual is telling people to follow an open/close idiom,
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:24:38 -0600, "Theo de Raadt" wrote:
> How about "discard resources", or something more nebulous. Especially
> if it frightens signal handler authors.
I understand what you are getting at but that seems so vague as to
be unhelpful.
- todd
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:35:16AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > > We don't actually have any log file descriptors since we have
> > > sendsyslog(2) so make the description a bit more generic.
> > > It is also closer to what POSIX says.
> > >
> > > OK?
> >
> > The term "log file" could be
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:09:13PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> The
> .Fn closelog
> function will close any file descriptors opened by the
> .Fn openlog ,
> .Fn openlog_r ,
> .Fn syslog
> or
> .Fn syslog_r
> functions.
>
> What do you think?
OK bluhm@
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:09:13PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:04:57 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:35:16AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > > We don't actually have any log file descriptors since we have
> > > sendsyslog(2) so make the
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:04:57 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:35:16AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > We don't actually have any log file descriptors since we have
> > sendsyslog(2) so make the description a bit more generic.
> > It is also closer to what POSIX says.
>
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:35:16AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> We don't actually have any log file descriptors since we have
> sendsyslog(2) so make the description a bit more generic.
> It is also closer to what POSIX says.
>
> OK?
The term "log file" could be misunderstood as refering to a
