Allow syslog() to use numeric constants in addition to strings for

facility names and priorities.

Subject: Patch for Sys::Syslog
Message-Id: <200403051403.10674.jschneid@netilla.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22451

diff --git a/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm b/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
index 13598e7..244157f 100644 (file)
--- a/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+++ b/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use Carp;
 @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
 @EXPORT = qw(openlog closelog setlogmask syslog);
 @EXPORT_OK = qw(setlogsock);
-$VERSION = '0.04';
+$VERSION = '0.05';
 
 # it would be nice to try stream/unix first, since that will be
 # most efficient. However streams are dodgy - see _syslog_send_stream
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ sub _syslog_send_socket {
 
 sub xlate {
     local($name) = @_;
+    return $name+0 if $name =~ /^\s*\d+\s*$/;
     $name = uc $name;
     $name = "LOG_$name" unless $name =~ /^LOG_/;
     $name = "Sys::Syslog::$name";