Re: Solaris, Perl and Sys::Syslog

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: Solaris, Perl and Sys::Syslog
Date: 21:35 on 14 Oct 2003
* On 2003.10.14, in <33017.66.230.1.1.1066160752.squirrel@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Steve" <stephen@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
> But the REAL question is this: Why the FUCK didn't the people who packaged
> Perl for Solaris fix this shit?  Christ Almighty ... Sys::Syslog is now
> standard in Perl, but it DOESN'T FUCKING WORK ON SOLARIS because the
> packagers WON'T ADDRESS THE GODDAMNED BUG!  A bug that has been around
> SINCE 2001!

Not to dampen the hate, not at all -- indeed, I want to add. The root
problem is with Sys::Syslog's assuming that it can syslog through a unix
socket. That's not a given. Solaris's syslog uses doors, and that's
fair, because the only defined interface to syslog is the one in the C
library. Sys::Syslog should just bleeding use the C library, instead of
making unwarranted assumptions about the implementation of syslog.

So, lots of hate to Sys::Syslog. We've been there, too. But that's perl
for you. I hate perl.

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