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@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ to syslogd. From there UDP transport is used to reach the server.
All processes write log files where the message has to show up.
The test arguments are kept in the args-*.pl files.
The content of a log file, the data sent to a pipe process and what
-the server received are checked. Logging to a user's tty is tested
-with a fake login. The invocation of the sendsyslog(2) syscall is
-checked with ktrace, the open file descriptors of syslogd are checked
-with fstat.
+the server received are checked. Logging to /dev/console is tested
+with console redirection. Logging to a user's tty is tested with
+a fake login. The invocation of the sendsyslog(2) syscall is checked
+with ktrace, the open file descriptors of syslogd are checked with
+fstat.
When invoked with "make libevent", all tests are executed three
times. They pass the EVENT_NO... environment variables over sudo
into syslogd. This way the select(2) and poll(2) and kqueue(2)