From 98005da9bda57d9209b2fb2782ff23876cdcfd41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:22:20 +0000
Subject: Both syslog(3) and syslogd(8) truncate the message at 8192 bytes. Do
 the same in sendsyslog(2) and document the behavior. reported by Ilja Van
 Sprundel; OK millert@ deraadt@

---
 lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2 | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2 b/lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2
index 9931b09d1c1..417322cb3ff 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/sendsyslog.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: sendsyslog.2,v 1.8 2016/03/22 13:09:08 bluhm Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: sendsyslog.2,v 1.9 2017/07/18 22:22:19 bluhm Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2014 Theo de Raadt
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 22 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2017 $
 .Dt SENDSYSLOG 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ function is used to transmit a
 formatted message direct to
 .Xr syslogd 8
 without requiring the allocation of a socket.
+The
+.Fa msg
+is not NUL terminated and its
+.Fa len
+is limited to 8192 bytes.
 If
 .Dv LOG_CONS
 is specified in the
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