From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 02:53:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA18639 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA18629 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 02:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA28164; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:52:06 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA20846; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:52:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id LAA16436; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:46:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610220946.LAA16436@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: comments on this change please. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:46:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <326C6524.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Oct 21, 96 11:09:40 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > I have added some code to syslogd to help compatibilty > by having it TRY make a symlink for /dev/log to /var/run/syslog.socket /var/run/log. POLA. (There's precedent with /var/run/printer, and we should convince the XFree86 folks of /var/run/X11, too.) > for those people who want BSDI (or linux?) or older freeBSD > binaries to work. In teh case of a read-only root fs, One would hope > that whoever set it up would have made the symlink first. Do also modify the remaining Makefiles etc. to make sure the symlink will be in place on any new system. Do symlink handling in devfs first. > + #if defined _OLD_PATH_LOG > + int alt_fifo; > + const char *OldLogName = _OLD_PATH_LOG; > + #endif I'm against bloating it with the `OLD_' cruft. Either change completely, or keep it as it is. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)