Bug #6248: Truncation of log when null character included in stream

• Status: Third Party's Issue
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290

[rubysubmit (Ruby Submit)]

require 'syslog'

Syslog.open("n")
Syslog.info("everything is normal and fine\0 additional message")

This results in the following log message.

example n[9270]: everything is normal and fine

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Category set to ext
• Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue
• Priority changed from 3 to Normal

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Seems to be an issue of syslog(), not ruby:

$ cat t.c
#include <syslog.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

int main() {
openlog("test", LOG_PID, LOG_USER);

syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "%s", "hello\0world");

return 0;

}
$ gcc t.c && ./a.out
$ sudo grep test /var/log/all.log
Apr 2 16:03:38 ziz test[15322]: hello

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