* [musl] Why connect() in syslog?
@ 2020-11-06 19:30 Markus Wichmann
2020-11-06 21:44 ` Rich Felker
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From: Markus Wichmann @ 2020-11-06 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: musl
Hi all,
I was reading musl's syslog source code today for unrelated reasons, and
saw that it is using connect() to set the destination. And it has some
code to deal with connection failures. But why? I see the syslog socket
is a datagram socket, so I thought sendto() with destination address
means the same thing as connect() and send(), with the difference that
it is one less syscall that can fail and no connection errors to handle.
I tried finding information about the semantics of connect() on a UNIX
datagram socket, but failed to find anything useful.
Ciao,
Markus
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* Re: [musl] Why connect() in syslog?
2020-11-06 19:30 [musl] Why connect() in syslog? Markus Wichmann
@ 2020-11-06 21:44 ` Rich Felker
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From: Rich Felker @ 2020-11-06 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: musl
On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 08:30:50PM +0100, Markus Wichmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was reading musl's syslog source code today for unrelated reasons, and
> saw that it is using connect() to set the destination. And it has some
> code to deal with connection failures. But why? I see the syslog socket
> is a datagram socket, so I thought sendto() with destination address
> means the same thing as connect() and send(), with the difference that
> it is one less syscall that can fail and no connection errors to handle.
> I tried finding information about the semantics of connect() on a UNIX
> datagram socket, but failed to find anything useful.
It's there so the process can chroot, move into a namespace/container,
etc. after calling openlog without losing the ability to do logging.
Rich
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