netdev - Re: [PATCH iputils 5/6] tftpd: fix syslog setup

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 00:33:08 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com>
Cc:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iputils 5/6] tftpd: fix syslog setup

On 02 Jun 2016 11:10, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Commit d81a44625b04d487c895473aa77af13420b7afdd added support for checking
> > the set*id calls, but would call syslog() before it had called openlog().
> > Move the call up earlier to fix that.
> 
> Please describe what it really fixes.

i already did: you need to call openlog before calling syslog, but the
code here very clearly doesn't.  if you read the commit i referenced,
and the all <25 lines of context here, it should be pretty obvious the
code is wrong.
-mike

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