From: noreply@...
Date: 2005-10-30T03:26:14+09:00
Subject: [ ruby-Bugs-2746 ] Syslog cannot log messages with %s in them

Bugs item #2746, was opened at 2005-10-29 13:17
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Category: Standard Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Luke Kanies (lkanies)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Syslog cannot log messages with %s in them

Initial Comment:
If you try to log a message which could be substituted by printf to Syslog, you get an exception:

luke@sol10b(13) $ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'syslog'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Syslog.open("testing")
=> <#Syslog: opened=true, ident="testing", options=3, facility=8, mask=255>
irb(main):003:0> Syslog.info("testing%s")
ArgumentError: too few argument.
        from (irb):3:in `info'
        from (irb):3

I have not yet found a workaround.  Escaping the percent sign using a backslash (unsurprisingly) does not work.

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