syslogd: add config option to include milliseconds in timestamps

For some use cases, having logs with more than 1 second accuracy can be
helpful.  Add an option to include milliseconds when adding a timestamp in
HH:MM:SS.mmm format, similar to syslog-ng with fraq_digits(3) or journalctl
-o short-precise.

For simplicity, abuse the remaining space in the buffer used by ctime to add
the millieconds (overwriting year).

function                                             old     new   delta
timestamp_and_log                                    401     448     +47

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sysklogd/syslogd.c b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
index 0e226124a..ab50f4a28 100644
--- a/sysklogd/syslogd.c
+++ b/sysklogd/syslogd.c
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@
 //config:       help
 //config:       Supports restricted syslogd config. See docs/syslog.conf.txt
 //config:
+//config:config FEATURE_SYSLOGD_PRECISE_TIMESTAMPS
+//config:       bool "Include milliseconds in timestamps"
+//config:       default n
+//config:       depends on SYSLOGD
+//config:       help
+//config:       Includes milliseconds (HH:MM:SS.mmm) in timestamp when
+//config:       timestamps are added.
+//config:
 //config:config FEATURE_SYSLOGD_READ_BUFFER_SIZE
 //config:       int "Read buffer size in bytes"
 //config:       default 256
@@ -276,7 +284,7 @@ struct globals {
         /* ...then copy to parsebuf, escaping control chars */
         /* (can grow x2 max) */
         char parsebuf[MAX_READ*2];
-        /* ...then sprintf into printbuf, adding timestamp (15 chars),
+        /* ...then sprintf into printbuf, adding timestamp (15 or 19 chars),
          * host (64), fac.prio (20) to the message */
         /* (growth by: 15 + 64 + 20 + delims = ~110) */
         char printbuf[MAX_READ*2 + 128];
@@ -832,12 +840,24 @@ static void timestamp_and_log(int pri, char *msg, int len)
                 msg += 16;
         }
 
+#if ENABLE_FEATURE_SYSLOGD_PRECISE_TIMESTAMPS
+        if (!timestamp) {
+                struct timeval tv;
+                gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
+                now = tv.tv_sec;
+                timestamp = ctime(&now) + 4; /* skip day of week */
+                /* overwrite year by milliseconds, zero terminate */
+                sprintf(timestamp + 15, ".%03u", (unsigned)tv.tv_usec / 1000u);
+        } else {
+                timestamp[15] = '\0';
+        }
+#else
         if (!timestamp) {
                 time(&now);
                 timestamp = ctime(&now) + 4; /* skip day of week */
         }
-
         timestamp[15] = '\0';
+#endif
 
         if (option_mask32 & OPT_kmsg) {
                 log_to_kmsg(pri, msg);