Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 22:19:48 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: jh@tangram.xs4all.nl (Jan-Hein Buhrman), freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/1711: kernel logging of signaled processes should be optional Message-ID: <199610051419.WAA01668@spinner.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Oct 1996 15:32:26 %2B0200." <199610051332.PAA00557@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote:
> As Jan-Hein Buhrman wrote:
>
> > I really liked what rld (the dynamic linker/loader) did on SGI IRIS
> > systems (perhaps FreeBSD does the same thing, didn't check it :-):
> >
> > If some shared libraries couldn't be found, an error message was just
> > shown on your terminal (via syslog), but if the process didn't have a
> > controlling tty, it was sent to /var/{log,adm}/{messages,SYSLOG} (also
> > via syslog).
>
> I'm not sure, but i think that's what tprintf() does.
No.. rtld/ld.so generates the "library libfoo.so.x not found" via
a write(2, "message", n) to stderr.. We don't have syslog in the
ld.so, although I guess it wouldn't be hard to do if it was desirable.
Cheers,
-Peter
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