Issue #6248 has been reported by rubysubmit (Ruby Submit). ---------------------------------------- Bug #6248: Truncation of log when null character included in stream https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6248 Author: rubysubmit (Ruby Submit) Status: Open Priority: Low Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 require 'syslog' Syslog.open("n") Syslog.info("everything is normal and fine\0 additional message") This results in the following log message. example n[9270]: everything is normal and fine -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/