OPENLOG(3POSIX)

🫶 PROLOG 🫶

Okay bestie, real talk before we even start: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go check the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or — plot twist — the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 💀

✨ NAME ✨

openlog — open a connection to the logging facility 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <syslog.h>

void openlog(const char *ident, int logopt, int facility);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like… refer to closelog(). That's it. That's the whole vibe. Go look over there, bestie, it's giving "the actual explanation lives in another room." 🙈

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

And fr fr, if this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard ever disagree? The original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document, no cap. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that show up in this page are most likely the result of the conversion of the source files into man page format — like, not the source's fault, it's the glow-up that went wrong. 😭 To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

That's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and iconic. This was IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, for OPENLOG(3POSIX). Periodt. 💅✨