[PATCH] syslogd +realpath

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:25:20PM +0100, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:19, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>> Yet another question is why syslogd even bothers to do this
>> remove/recreate cycle? What will happen if it will just
>> bind to /dev/log? (the code will be smaller too)
>
>This is what will happen:
>
>./busybox syslogd -n -O zz_syslog
>syslogd: bind: Address already in use
>
>I like it. Do you? I mean, let's kill realpath'ing entirely!
>
>But don't forget to file uclibc bug report regarding realpath
>at http://bugs.uclibc.org/

IIRC there is already a proposed fix for this. Yep:
http://busybox.net/lists/uclibc/2007-February/017284.html