From 33ecc8a5d2240b03226548e72bd541faf600e342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:07:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] issue #507: log fatal errors to syslog.

Next round should log entire exception text, but this is useful enough
already.
---
 mitogen/core.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mitogen/core.py b/mitogen/core.py
index b97360f1..0890735d 100644
--- a/mitogen/core.py
+++ b/mitogen/core.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import signal
 import socket
 import struct
 import sys
+import syslog
 import threading
 import time
 import traceback
@@ -3245,8 +3246,10 @@ class Broker(object):
 
             fire(self, 'shutdown')
             self._broker_shutdown()
-        except Exception:
-            LOG.exception('_broker_main() crashed')
+        except Exception as e:
+            LOG.exception('broker crashed')
+            syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, 'broker crashed: %s' % (e,))
+            syslog.closelog()  # prevent test 'fd leak'.
 
         self._alive = False  # Ensure _alive is consistent on crash.
         self._exitted = True