Bug#519356: busybox: please document that syslogd silently truncates lines longer than 255 bytes

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.10.2-2
Severity: wishlist

Steps to reproduce:
1) sudo busybox syslogd -C4096
2) logger "logger test `seq 1 100`"
3) busybox logread | grep "logger test"

Expected results:
3) numbers from 1 to 100 are shown

Actual results:
3) only numbers from 1 to 75 are shown:

Mar 12 02:03:25 ginger user.notice lindi: logger test 1 2 <skipped> 73 74 75

More info:
1) I suggest that 

"System logging utility.  Note that this version of syslogd ignores /etc/syslog.conf."

in 'man busybox' is to be augmented with

"Lines longer than 255 bytes will be silently truncated."


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: armel (armv4tl)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-GTA02_lindi-andy-tracking_b8b36e5ec3db71d5-mokodev (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages busybox depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

busybox recommends no packages.

busybox suggests no packages.

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