Milter-greylist

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, egcrosser wrote:
> --- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Dan Hollis <goemon@a...> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 manu@n... wrote:
> > > egcrosser <egcrosser@y...> wrote:
> > > > BTW, 'syslog(LOG_ERR, "local_addr: bind failed: %m")' is a bit shorter :)
> > > I didn't know that one. That's nifty. Is it portable?
> > It appears to be a gcc-specific extension.
> Nope.
> I beleive it's standard.  I still remember Unices that did not have
> syslog() at all, but no one that had syslog() without "%m".

I did some research, I guess you can safely use it for syslog _only_, but 
using %m in any other format strings (printf etc) cannot be guaranteed on 
anything other than gnu libc.

-Dan