svn commit: r335059 - in stable/11: usr.bin/wall usr.sbin/syslogd

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> Hi Rodney,
> 
> 2018-06-13 15:57 GMT+02:00 Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>:
> >> Modified:
> >>   stable/11/usr.bin/wall/ttymsg.c
> >>   stable/11/usr.bin/wall/ttymsg.h
> >
> > I see no mention of any changes to wall in the commit,
> > was this intentional?  The changes don't seem to be
> > related to syslogd directly.
> 
> Good question. syslogd(8) reuses some code from wall(8) to write
> syslog messages to terminals if configured to do so. In one of the RFC
> 5424 support commits, I had to adjust this shared code slightly
> (increase a limit). As the changes to wall(8) were committed together
> with the syslogd(8) changes, I also had to merge them back in one go.
> 
> In other words, this is intentional. :-)

Thank you for the details.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org