Upstream man-pages-3.41 patches as follows: --- a/man3/syslog.3 +++ b/man3/syslog.3 @@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ opens a connection to the system logger for a program. The string pointed to by .I ident is prepended to every message, and is typically set to the program name. +If +.I ident +is NULL, the program name is used. +(POSIX.1-2008 does not specify the behavior when +.I ident +is NULL.) + The .I option argument specifies flags which control the operation of
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