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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 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 Oct 1996 15:32:26 +0200."
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Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 22:19:48 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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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