truncated output in syslog with 1.4.2

[Denis Vlasenko]

Hi Mike, Stephane,

On Monday 19 March 2007 02:49, Stephane Billiart wrote:
> On 18/03/07 ? ? 18:32, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > anyone else seen truncated messages when using syslog/klog ?  so i start up my 
> > system and run syslog/klog, /var/log/messages looks like:
> > Jun  1 08:01:10 blackfin syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.4.1
> > then i restart klog and this shows up:
> > Jun  1 08:02:11 blackfin user.notice kernel: Ker
> > Jun  1 08:02:11 blackfin user.notice kernel: klo
> > 
> > changing MAX_READ in sysklogd.c to like 0xFF gives me more output, but i feel 
> > like that isnt the correct route :)
> > -mike

Thanks Mike for narrowing it down.

> I have reported the same problem last month with uClibc 0.9.27 (glibc is ok).
> I did not have time to narrow it down precisely but the reads in sysklogd.c
> are definitely short.

I think you built uclibc with extra small stdio buffer
or something like that -> BUFSIZ is very small (128 bytes?).

What printf("BUFSIZ=%d\n", BUFSIZ) prints, if added in syslogd.c?

Does attached modified syslogd.c work better?
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vda
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