Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 08:47:31 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog Message-ID: <20040103214731.GA59347@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <3FF714C6.1D099404@grosbein.pp.ru> References: <3FF714C6.1D099404@grosbein.pp.ru>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:15:18AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! > > ache@freebsd.org wrote 8 years ago in src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c: > > p += sprintf(p, "%.15s ", ctime(&now) + 4); > > What is '+ 4' for? ctime() returns: Thu Nov 24 18:22:48 1986\n\0 So ctime()+4 returns: Nov 24 18:22:48 1986\n\0 In other words, it skips the day of the week. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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