[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 1.6.x on OpenBSD on sparc64

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 23:05 +0200, Bostjan Golob wrote:
> It appears that syslog-ng has an issue on OpenBSD/sparc64, as it does
> not determine the hostname of the remote system, making all messages
> appear to be from the syslog-ng server. The bug appears to be well
> hidden in sources.c. In line 98, the call to do_recv (as seen in gdb
> backtrace) is made, which requires a socklen_t* parameter. The catch
> is in line 88, where salen is declared as size_t and then cast to
> socklen_t; on sparc64, size_t is 64bit and socklen_t is 32bit and that
> causes the salen variable to always contain 0, causing the known bug.
> If you change line 88 to socklen_t salen = sizeof(sabuf), the host
> name of the sending host is determined correctly and written in the
> logfiles.
> That also explains why syslog-ng works correctly on OpenBSD/i386, but
> not on sparc64.

Thanks, committed a fix for that.

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Bazsi