Re: fix for Sys::Syslog

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:27:17PM -0800, Joshua Richardson wrote:
> > I hope I'm sending this mail to the right person.  I'm using your 
> > Sys::Syslog module for PERL, and noticed a possible small bug.
> > 
> > When Sys::Syslog constructs the msg to send to syslog, it does
> > 
> > 	$mask =~ s/%m/$!/g;
> > 
> > Sometimes we want to send messages that have %m in them, so we escape it 
> > and create a message like "executing cmd with %%m".  So wondering if you 
> > would/should change the line to:
> > 
> > 	$mask =~ s/(?:^|[^%])%m/$!/g;
> 
> Not quite right; perhaps (?<!%)%m

Thanks, I applied this fix to Sys::Syslog in the development version of
perl as change #23649.

• fix for Sys::Syslog by Joshua Richardson
• Re: fix for Sys::Syslog by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
• Re: fix for Sys::Syslog by Rafael Garcia-Suarez