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+/*
+** Copyright 2003, Axel Dörfler, axeld@pinc-software.de. All rights reserved.
+** Distributed under the terms of the OpenBeOS License.
+*/
+#ifndef SYSLOG_DAEMON_H
+#define SYSLOG_DAEMON_H
+
+
+#include <OS.h>
+
+
+#define SYSLOG_PORT_NAME	"syslog_daemon"
+#define SYSLOG_MESSAGE		'_Syl'
+
+// This message is sent from both, the POSIX syslog API and the kernel's
+// dprintf() logging facility if logging to syslog was enabled.
+
+struct syslog_message {
+	thread_id	from;
+	time_t		when;
+	int32		options;
+	char		ident[B_OS_NAME_LENGTH];
+	char		message[1];
+};
+
+#endif	/* SYSLOG_DAEMON_H */