git: f9e62cbacc33 - main - libc/syslog: fully deprecate and don't try to open "/dev/log"

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:10:41 UTC
The branch main has been updated by glebius:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=f9e62cbacc33987506332133bb076c8fe4fbe82d

commit f9e62cbacc33987506332133bb076c8fe4fbe82d
Author:     Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-06-24 16:09:11 +0000
Commit:     Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-06-24 16:09:11 +0000

    libc/syslog: fully deprecate and don't try to open "/dev/log"
    
    The "/dev/log" socket existed in pre-FreeBSD times.  Later it was
    substituted to a compatibility symlink.  The symlink creation was
    deprecated in FreeBSD 10.2 and 9-STABLE.
    
    Reviewed by:            markj
    Differential revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35304
---
 lib/libc/gen/syslog.c | 12 ------------
 sys/sys/syslog.h      |  1 -
 2 files changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c b/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c
index 797c7389d1a2..50a77f651980 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c
@@ -435,18 +435,6 @@ connectlog(void)
 				status = CONNDEF;
 		}
 
-		if (status == NOCONN) {
-			/*
-			 * Try the old "/dev/log" path, for backward
-			 * compatibility.
-			 */
-			(void)strncpy(SyslogAddr.sun_path, _PATH_OLDLOG,
-			    sizeof SyslogAddr.sun_path);
-			if (_connect(LogFile, (struct sockaddr *)&SyslogAddr,
-			    sizeof(SyslogAddr)) != -1)
-				status = CONNDEF;
-		}
-
 		if (status == NOCONN) {
 			(void)_close(LogFile);
 			LogFile = -1;
diff --git a/sys/sys/syslog.h b/sys/sys/syslog.h
index 071b68427105..ff2bd1450802 100644
--- a/sys/sys/syslog.h
+++ b/sys/sys/syslog.h
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 
 #define	_PATH_LOG	"/var/run/log"
 #define	_PATH_LOG_PRIV	"/var/run/logpriv"
-#define	_PATH_OLDLOG	"/dev/log"	/* backward compatibility */
 
 /*
  * priorities/facilities are encoded into a single 32-bit quantity, where the