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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2005-08-31 15:14:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2005-08-31 15:14:28 +0000 |
| commit | b91ed0194cb2707fc4bb2619e1294e4287626407 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e1d0ea3f53b265c86b353a09bd475020dcaf392 /ext/Sys | |
| parent | ea1d064a0a997a28f8265a165120fea0d04e9a22 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b91ed0194cb2707fc4bb2619e1294e4287626407.tar.gz | |
Document that Sys::Syslog::openlog might die.
Fixes [perl #36848] Sys::Syslog::syslog kills program if syslogd not running
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25342
Diffstat (limited to 'ext/Sys')
| -rw-r--r-- | ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm b/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm index 7581bcbd8a..c56d37cb70 100644 --- a/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm +++ b/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm @@ -53,13 +53,15 @@ Syslog provides the functions: =item openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility +Opens the syslog. I<$ident> is prepended to every message. I<$logopt> contains zero or more of the words I<pid>, I<ndelay>, I<nowait>. The cons option is ignored, since the failover mechanism will drop down to the console automatically if all other media fail. I<$facility> specifies the part of the system to report about, for example LOG_USER or LOG_LOCAL0: see your C<syslog(3)> documentation for the facilities available in -your system. +your system. This function will croak if it can't connect to the syslog +daemon. B<You should use openlog() before calling syslog().> |