code review 6782140: log/syslog: retry once if write fails

src/pkg/log/syslog/syslog_unix.go

 // Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // +build !windows,!plan9
 
 package syslog
 
 import (
         "errors"
         "net"
 )
 
 // unixSyslog opens a connection to the syslog daemon running on the
 // local machine using a Unix domain socket.
 
-func unixSyslog() (conn serverConn, err error) {
+func unixSyslog() (conn net.Conn, err error) {
         logTypes := []string{"unixgram", "unix"}
         logPaths := []string{"/dev/log", "/var/run/syslog"}
-        var raddr string
         for _, network := range logTypes {
                 for _, path := range logPaths {
-                        raddr = path
-                        conn, err := net.Dial(network, raddr)
+                        conn, err := net.Dial(network, path)
                         if err != nil {
                                 continue
                         } else {
-                                return netConn{conn}, nil
+                                return conn, nil
                         }
                 }
         }
         return nil, errors.New("Unix syslog delivery error")
 }