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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2017-08-29 18:23:01 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2017-08-29 18:23:01 +0000 |
| commit | 2193f5ce81d089b1369cacadacd7c6f32f989d6a (patch) | |
| tree | 0828168ccdb8688ecbe6863ad9e83e44bce77a1b /lib/libc | |
| parent | rename sc_pipe to sc_outpipe to indicate it's direction as there'll come an (diff) | |
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It is confusing to talk about priorities being ordered from high
to low when they are actually numbered in the opposite (numerical)
order. Use "ordered by decreasing importance" instead. Also try
to make it clear that LOG_UPTO uses the numerical priorities where
a larger value means a lower priority. OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/syslog.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/syslog.3 b/lib/libc/gen/syslog.3 index a7962225600..74eb6382d36 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/syslog.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/syslog.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: syslog.3,v 1.33 2016/03/30 06:58:06 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: syslog.3,v 1.34 2017/08/29 18:23:01 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 30 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 29 2017 $ .Dt SYSLOG 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -173,9 +173,7 @@ The .Fa level (ORed with the .Fa facility ) -is selected from the following -.Em ordered -(high to low) list: +is selected from the following list, ordered by decreasing importance: .Bl -tag -width LOG_AUTHPRIV .It Dv LOG_EMERG A panic condition. @@ -300,7 +298,9 @@ the mask for all priorities up to and including .Fa toppri is given by the macro .Fn LOG_UPTO toppri . -The default allows all priorities to be logged. +The default allows all priorities to be logged, which +corresponds to +.Li setlogmask(LOG_UPTO(LOG_DEBUG)) . .Pp The .Fn setlogmask_r |