BUG: logging to file on linux adds \0 to line-end.

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• Subject: BUG: logging to file on linux adds \0 to line-end.
• From: epping@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rob Epping)
• Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:39:02 +0000

Hello list,

During some tests i was doing i found that when logging to file (using
notifyme) resulted in lines starting with \0-char.
Further investigation showed that the bug is in ulog.c.
Following patch will correct the problem (for me). As i am not a programmer
i don't know if this breaks anything..... Be warned!

------ begin patch ------
--- ulog/ulog.c.orig    Thu Dec  7 18:48:55 2000
+++ ulog/ulog.c Thu Oct 25 11:17:36 2001
@@ -399,8 +399,11 @@
                tbuf[cnt] = 0;
        }
 #if __linux
-       /* Stream unix domain socket, wants the \0 as message terminator */
-       ++cnt;
+       if(logFilename == NULL) /* using syslogd */
+       {
+               /* Stream unix domain socket, wants the \0 as message 
terminator */
+               ++cnt;
+       }
 #endif
 #if TBUFDIAG
        fputs(tbuf, stdout);
------ end patch ------

Further info: using Debian Linux unstable on a PPro 200 with 256 MB RAM

Kind Regards,

Rob Epping.
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