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  1. Bug #382096
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 382096

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Michael Kerrisk (mtk-manpages) wrote :

Upstream man-pages-3.41 patches as follows:

--- a/man3/syslog.3
+++ b/man3/syslog.3
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ opens a connection to the system logger for a program.
 The string pointed to by
 .I ident
 is prepended to every message, and is typically set to the program name.
+If
+.I ident
+is NULL, the program name is used.
+(POSIX.1-2008 does not specify the behavior when
+.I ident
+is NULL.)
+
 The
 .I option
 argument specifies flags which control the operation of