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// This program is able to listen to a datagram unix socket displaying
// a linefeed at each receive. Useful when other program wants scrutinize
// syslog forwarded outputs for example (like in omuxsock module by rsyslog
// does).
//
// compile with gcc/clang -o syslog-listen syslog-listen.c


#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <errno.h>

#define PERROR(code, msg) { if ((code) == -1) { perror((msg)); exit(1); } }

int main(int argc, const char** argv)
{
    if (argc < 2) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Usage: syslog-listen </path>\n");
        exit(1);
    }

    struct sockaddr_un sock_file;
    memset(&sock_file, 0, sizeof(sock_file));
    sock_file.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
    strncpy(sock_file.sun_path, argv[1], sizeof(sock_file.sun_path));

    int sock = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
    PERROR(sock, "socket");
    unlink(argv[1]); // no need to test ret as bind will crash if needed
    int ret = bind(sock, (struct sockaddr*)&sock_file, sizeof(sock_file));
    PERROR(ret, "bind");

    char buf[8192];
    int receive;
    while (1) {
        receive = recv(sock, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
        PERROR(receive, "recv");
        buf[receive] = '\0';
        printf("received: %s\n", buf);
    }

    return 0;
}