On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers) writes:
> > The Linux page says just:
> > HISTORY
> > A syslog function call appeared in BSD 4.2.
> > Normally if there's a standard they mention it.
>
> Yes, the HP man pages also trace it to BSD. I'm surprised syslog
> (apparently) hasn't made it into any formal standard.
"man syslog" shows the above, "man logger" however, shows this:
STANDARDS The logger command is expected to be IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX'') compati- ble.
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