On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:28:53 +0100 (BST)  Patrick Welche wrote:

> In line 195 of src/libexec/getty/main.c is written:
> 
>         openlog("getty", LOG_ODELAY|LOG_CONS|LOG_PID, LOG_AUTH);
> 
> What does LOG_ODELAY do? I can only find references to LOG_NDELAY in
> the openlog man page and in src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.c

Not much!  From /usr/include/sys/syslog.h:

/*
 * Option flags for openlog.
 *
 * LOG_ODELAY no longer does anything.
 * LOG_NDELAY is the inverse of what it used to be.
 */
#define LOG_ODELAY      0x04    /* delay open until first syslog() (default) */

Simon.