From aa00f4c4f69f7cd7c3ccb7e4371a44bd338cc812 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Dag-Erling=20Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 16:32:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] logger: Close syslog channel on exit

MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	Klara, Inc.
Sponsored by:	Qualys, Inc.
Reviewed by:	oshogbo
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D60170
---
 usr.bin/logger/logger.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/usr.bin/logger/logger.c b/usr.bin/logger/logger.c
index d16f387291e6..554772fc8e34 100644
--- a/usr.bin/logger/logger.c
+++ b/usr.bin/logger/logger.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ static ssize_t	socksetup(const char *, const char *, const char *,
 		    struct socks **);
 static void	logmessage(int, const char *, const char *, const char *,
 		    struct socks *, ssize_t, const char *);
+static void	closesyslog(void);
 static void	usage(void);
 
 static cap_channel_t *capsyslog;
@@ -174,6 +175,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	if (capsyslog == NULL)
 		err(1, "Unable to open system.syslog service");
 	cap_close(capcas);
+	atexit(closesyslog);
 
 	if (pristr != NULL)
 		pri = pencode(pristr);
@@ -429,6 +431,12 @@ decode(char *name, const CODE *codetab)
 	return (-1);
 }
 
+static void
+closesyslog(void)
+{
+	cap_close(capsyslog);
+}
+
 static void
 usage(void)
 {