>> Restarting syslogd makes everything work fine again, until the next time
>> it happens.
>
>Note that restarting syslogd might make it work fine again, but many
>daemons will now have a disconnected logging socket and will never
>syslog again.  See PR#8065 and PR#11087.

what if vsyslog() in lib/libc/gen/syslog.c was changed like this:

	if (send(LogFile, tbuf, cnt, 0) >= 0) {
		mutex_unlock(&syslog_mutex);
		return;
	}
+	if (errno == EBADF) {
+		closelog_unlocked();
+		openlog_unlocked(LogTag, LogStat | LOG_NDELAY, 0);
+		if (send(LogFile, tbuf, cnt, 0) >= 0) {
+			mutex_unlock(&syslog_mutex);
+			return;
+		}
+	}
        mutex_unlock(&syslog_mutex);

would that be good?

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