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Postings from April 2000
Since 5.6.0 was released a number of people have contacted me regarding problems with my XSification of Sys::Syslog. The main problem appears to be that _PATH_LOG is always defined now but will die if there was no #define for it in the system header file. Previously _PATH_LOG was only defined if the macro existed in the header file. I didn't realise this would be a problem because _PATH_LOG isn't a documented part of the interface and I changed Syslog.pm so that it didn't mind the change as part of my patch. However at least one popular module on CPAN tries to test whether or not _PATH_LOG is defined in order to decide whether to use Unix or UDP sockets for logging. The question therefore is whether we should revert to the old behaviour of only defining it when we have a definition or should instead say that users need to change their code? Tom -- Tom Hughes (tom@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ...We'll pivot at warp 2 and bring all tubes to bear, Mr. Sulu.Thread Next