spurious \n in session id helper [was: Re: user message limits]

On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:25:23 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 02:10:19PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > > and then session information: > > audit_log_format(ab, " auid=%u ses=%u\n", auid, sessionid); > > which is 32 characters...but I don't know why the \n is in there. That > > should probably be deleted!! > > That is unexpected... added in 4d3fb709 when the session id was > refactored (by eparis(a)localhost.localdomain nonetheless!). auditd seems > to be doing the right thing when writing out /var/log/audit/audit.log > though. Please drop the '\n' as I mentioned above. It doesn't belong there and wastes room in the audit trail. Auditd strips all '\n' and it would run faster if it didn't have to strip it out.

-Steve