From 3a0ac995519b59383decb224be442ca1b06cc184 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 07:34:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a new flag '-c' to disable repeated line compression when
 the output is a pipe to another program, or, if specified twice, in all
 cases.

PR:	bin/32420
---
 usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 | 6 ++++++
 usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
index cfa2a5102984..7807a6ba08d2 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ option is also specified.
 Specify one specific IP address or hostname to bind to.
 If a hostname is specified,
 the IPv4 or IPv6 address which corresponds to it is used.
+.It Fl c
+Disable the compression of repeated instances of the same line
+into a single line of the form
+.Dq last message repeated N times
+when the output is a pipe to another program.
+If specified twice, disable this compression in all cases.
 .It Fl d
 Put
 .Nm
diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c
index 0cfa84c1f57d..9a534e36b457 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ int	family = PF_INET;	/* protocol family (IPv4 only) */
 #endif
 int	send_to_all = 0;	/* send message to all IPv4/IPv6 addresses */
 int	use_bootfile = 0;	/* log entire bootfile for every kern msg */
+int	no_compress = 0;	/* don't compress messages (1=pipes, 2=all) */
 
 char	bootfile[MAXLINE+1];	/* booted kernel file */
 
@@ -334,7 +335,7 @@ main(argc, argv)
 	socklen_t len;
 
 	bindhostname = NULL;
-	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "46Aa:b:df:kl:m:nop:P:suv")) != -1)
+	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "46Aa:b:cdf:kl:m:nop:P:suv")) != -1)
 		switch (ch) {
 		case '4':
 			family = PF_INET;
@@ -354,6 +355,9 @@ main(argc, argv)
 		case 'b':
 			bindhostname = optarg;
 			break;
+		case 'c':
+			no_compress++;
+			break;
 		case 'd':		/* debug */
 			Debug++;
 			break;
@@ -865,7 +869,8 @@ logmsg(pri, msg, from, flags)
 		/*
 		 * suppress duplicate lines to this file
 		 */
-		if ((flags & MARK) == 0 && msglen == f->f_prevlen &&
+		if (no_compress - (f->f_type != F_PIPE) < 1 &&
+		    (flags & MARK) == 0 && msglen == f->f_prevlen &&
 		    !strcmp(msg, f->f_prevline) &&
 		    !strcasecmp(from, f->f_prevhost)) {
 			(void)strlcpy(f->f_lasttime, timestamp, 16);