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 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 log file. > > > > Is "... will close any open file descriptor for logging." better? > > Possibly. I don't like using "log file" either. POSIX says any > file descriptors opened by openlog() or syslog(). So perhaps: > > 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? > > - todd >
i misread the original diff also. i think what you propose now is clearer. jmc