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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2018 07:16:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r335059 - in stable/11: usr.bin/wall usr.sbin/syslogd
Message-ID:  <201806131416.w5DEGgwm039814@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CABh_MKkp4zxaGMnd6LAXirXYx_utwpMr1PMsUjj5kP=S9m_7nw@mail.gmail.com>

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> Hi Rodney,
> 
> 2018-06-13 15:57 GMT+02:00 Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@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.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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