The syslog_daemon now ignores zero length messages, and the kernel's syslog

mechanism doesn't send them out any longer.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@16153 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

src/servers/syslog_daemon/SyslogDaemon.cpp

@@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ SyslogDaemon::Daemon()
 		// add terminating null byte
 		message.message[bytesRead - sizeof(syslog_message)] = '\0';
 
+		if (!message.message[0]) {
+			// ignore empty messages
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		fHandlerLock.Lock();
 
 		for (int32 i = fHandlers.CountItems(); i-- > 0;) {

src/servers/syslog_daemon/syslog_output.cpp

@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ syslog_output(syslog_message &message)
 		} else {
 			length = strlcpy(buffer + headerLength, message.message + pos,
 				sizeof(buffer) - headerLength);
+			if (length == 0)
+				break;
 		}
 
 		length += headerLength;

src/system/kernel/debug/debug.c

@@ -431,6 +431,12 @@ syslog_sender(void *data)
 				restore_interrupts(state);
 			}
 
+			if (length == 0) {
+				// the buffer we came here for might have been sent already
+				bufferPending = false;
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			error = write_port_etc(port, SYSLOG_MESSAGE, sSyslogMessage,
 				sizeof(struct syslog_message) + length, B_RELATIVE_TIMEOUT, 0);