Between Busybox 1.24.2 and 1.25.0 the bb_info_msg() function was
eliminated and calls to it changed to be bb_error_msg(). The downside of
this is that daemons now log all messages to syslog at the LOG_ERR level
which makes it hard to filter errors from informational messages.
This change optionally re-introduces bb_info_msg(), controlled by a new
option FEATURE_SYSLOG_INFO, restores all the calls to bb_info_msg() that
were removed (only in applets that set logmode to LOGMODE_SYSLOG or
LOGMODE_BOTH), and also changes informational messages in ifplugd and
ntpd.
The code size change of this is as follows (using 'defconfig' on x86_64
with gcc 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)
function old new delta
bb_info_msg - 182 +182
bb_vinfo_msg - 27 +27
static.log7 194 198 +4
log8 190 191 +1
log5 190 191 +1
crondlog 45 - -45
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(add/remove: 2/1 grow/shrink: 3/0 up/down: 215/-45) Total: 170 bytes
If you don't care about everything being logged at LOG_ERR level
then when FEATURE_SYSLOG_INFO is disabled Busybox actually gets smaller:
function old new delta
static.log7 194 200 +6
log8 190 193 +3
log5 190 193 +3
syslog_level 1 - -1
bb_verror_msg 583 581 -2
crondlog 45 - -45
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(add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 3/1 up/down: 12/-48) Total: -36 bytes
Signed-off-by: James Byrne <james.byrne@origamienergy.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Please see the LICENSE file for copyright information (GPLv2)
libbb is BusyBox's utility library. All of this stuff used to be stuffed into
a single file named utility.c. When I split utility.c to create libbb, some of
the very oldest stuff ended up without their original copyright and licensing
information (which is now lost in the mists of time). If you see something
that you wrote that is mis-attributed, do let me know so we can fix that up.
Erik Andersen
<andersen@codepoet.org>
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