Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG

Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG

I just ran into a problem with Syslog.pm. I tried to install some
modules which did call Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix'). The following
connect fails because my syslog.ph does not define _PATH_LOG (This is
SunOS 5.5.1).

The easiest way to handle this would be to make setlogsock('unix') a
NOOP if _PATH_LOG is not defined. I am not advocating to ignore it
silently. But can we make setlogsock return a value indicating that
the operation did or did not work? It seems a little cleaner that to
force users to check for _PATH_LOG themselves?

p5p-msgid: p5iuw1cris.fsf@knowway.de.uu.net