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Date:      Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:38:21 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 229775] syslog(3) includes process id in each message even if LOG_PID is not specified as 2nd argument of openlog(3)
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--- Comment #3 from Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> ---
(In reply to Yuri Pankov from comment #2)

Behavior on 12-CURRENT doesn't conform to POSIX standard and breaks
compatibility with other UNIX-like OSes. And it results in change of
application behavior not intended by author. One example is security/sudo.
According to man page of sudoers(5) there is following configuration option.

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syslog_pid        When logging via syslog(3), include the process ID in
                  the log entry.  This flag is off by default.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

On 11.2-RELEASE it works as is expected. But on 12-CURRENT it doesn't becau=
se
process ID is included regardless of this option. And from the viewpoint of
user it looks like bug of sudo. So it is possible someone reports it to aut=
hor
of sudo. Then he will investigate and find behavior of syslog(3) changed on
12-CURRENT. And to make matters worse he will also find there is no way to
implement it correctly. So it is quite possible he blames syslog(3) of
12-CURRENT is broken.

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