[Bug 382096] Re: syslog(3) doesn't cover openlog()'s ident being NULL

[Ralph Corderoy]

** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  syslog(3) doesn't cover openlog()'s ident being NULL

Status in “manpages” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 9.04, manpages-dev 3.15-1.

  syslog(3) documents openlog(ident, option, facility).  It doesn't
  describe what happens if openlog is passed NULL as an ident.  It does
  say that syslog itself will do this if syslog is called without
  openlog having been called previously.  So, either I can pass NULL to
  openlog myself, or syslog may do so, but what will that do in terms of
  the data logged?

  Empirically, it seems the basename of argv[0] will be used.  This
  should be documented.

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