Quoting Didier Kryn (kryn@???):

>     syslog() is a member of the C library which allows any
> application to send messages to the system logging facility, through
> the socket /var/log/syslog and some lock mechanism (probably using a
> semaphore) to prevent two applications to write in the same time.
> See man syslog.

Yeah, I sort of blew that in my explanation, didn't I? ;-> Thanks for
stepping in.