Is it possible to extend log message?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Nakai Toru (Technical Support)
<nakai at sgi.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Is it possible to extend log message as large as PATH_MAX?
> Current length of message format including file path is small against linux PATH_MAX, 4096.
>
> diff --git a/log.c b/log.c
> index ad12930..95df4a9 100644
> --- a/log.c
> +++ b/log.c
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ log_redirect_stderr_to(const char *logfile)
>         log_stderr_fd = fd;
>  }
>
> -#define MSGBUFSIZ 1024
> +#define MSGBUFSIZ 5192
>
>  void
>  set_log_handler(log_handler_fn *handler, void *ctx)
> @@ -448,11 +448,11 @@ do_log(LogLevel level, const char *fmt, va_list args)
>         } else {
>  #if defined(HAVE_OPENLOG_R) && defined(SYSLOG_DATA_INIT)
>                 openlog_r(argv0 ? argv0 : __progname, LOG_PID, log_facility, &sd
> -               syslog_r(pri, &sdata, "%.500s", fmtbuf);
> +               syslog_r(pri, &sdata, "%s", fmtbuf);
>                 closelog_r(&sdata);
>  #else
>                 openlog(argv0 ? argv0 : __progname, LOG_PID, log_facility);
> -               syslog(pri, "%.500s", fmtbuf);
> +               syslog(pri, "%s", fmtbuf);
>                 closelog();
>  #endif
>         }
>
> Thanks
>
> nakai

Possible? Probably, But what precisely were you thinking needs more
than 500 characters?