[BusyBox 0000436]: Duplicate messages suppressing

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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=436 
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Reported By:                Dmitry Bazhenov
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   436
Category:                   New Features
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             09-17-2005 03:15 PDT
Last Modified:              09-30-2006 12:45 PDT
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Summary:                    Duplicate messages suppressing
Description: 
This patch add feature of suppressing duplicate messages.
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 vapier - 09-17-05 21:46  
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half that patch has dos newline crap, please fix

what kind of filesize difference does this make ?  if it's significant,
should make this a build option 

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 vda - 09-30-06 12:45  
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What's the point in duplicating syslog misfeatures? It already does too
many things: listens on /dev/log,  writes to files, rotates logs, sends
UDP packets... all of those should be separate small utilities btw... 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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09-17-05 03:15  Dmitry BazhenovNew Issue                                    
09-17-05 03:15  Dmitry BazhenovStatus                   new => assigned     
09-17-05 03:15  Dmitry BazhenovAssigned To               => BusyBox         
09-17-05 03:15  Dmitry BazhenovFile Added: syslogd.c-suppress_duplicates.patch  
                 
09-17-05 21:46  vapier         Note Added: 0000546                          
09-30-06 12:45  vda            Note Added: 0001667                          
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