Laurence Tratt <lau...@tratt.net> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 03:22:12PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Hello Theo, > > >> OpenBSD's documentation for openlog's first paramater 'ident' is less > >> clear than Debian [1] or GNU [2] that the memory pointed to must remain > >> valid for as long as syslog is called (which I'm assuming without hard > >> evidence is equivalent to "until closelog is called"). > [...] > > If we are going to document it, about 6 word adjustment speaking about > > "storage", "lifetime", or "persisting" "until closelog()" should be enough, > > Keeping it simple works for me. Patch at the bottom of this email. > > > Laurie > > > Index: syslog.3 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.3,v > retrieving revision 1.35 > diff -u -r1.35 syslog.3 > --- syslog.3 30 Aug 2019 20:27:25 -0000 1.35 > +++ syslog.3 2 Feb 2020 23:13:30 -0000 > @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ > .Fn vsyslog . > The parameter > .Fa ident > -is a string that will be prepended to every message. > +is a string that will be prepended to every message; both storage and > contents > +must persist unchanged until > +.Fn closelog . > The > .Fa logopt > argument
What is the difference between storage and contents (actually contents could change. As long as there is always a terminating NUL, for the purpose of traversal. But that's not something someone should code to) You still didn't say how you ran into this.
