On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
For now we just need one call to get the capabilities. It is a local call and has nothing to do with network protocols.
If that's the main desire, so why not define a "capabilities file" that the syslogd writes on startup and that the lib can access? That's the simplest possible interface and, yes, it is imperfect...
It will work in many cases, but as you say it's imperfect. Is there a better option?
David Lang