I've been trying to get syslogd working for the past several days,
and ran into a few problems.

The UNIX domain socket implementation only implements connection
based sockets, and syslogd wants a connectionless socket.  Is anyone
working on implementing recvfrom/sendto?

Next I thought, no problem, I'll just rewrite the code to use
a named pipe instead.  In my first attempt I opened the FIFO
with the flags O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK.  This worked (the open
didn't hang), but the select system call kept indicating that
the FIFO was ready for reading when in fact it wasn't (read
returned -1, errno EAGAIN).  This doesn't seem like correct
behaviour for select.

Fortunately the story ends well: I was able to get a non-blocking
open on the FIFO by opening with just O_RDWR.  The above issues
should still be looked at, though, for the sake of other
applications.

                        Eric Negaard