I didn't close the patch, I just marked it as "Pending" - not the same thing as closing, but giving an opportunity for an improved patch to be uploaded, and putting the ball in your court. And opinions differ about the "standard method" - in fact the UDP/domain socket SysLogHandler implementation was contributed by someone who was using it in a real-world scenario. The syslog call method doesn't appear to provide the ability to log to remote daemons - so the UDP/domain socket route would appear to cover all bases. Are you saying that you are not able to use UDP or Unix sockets in your environment? Can you please give more details about this environment - operating system, version etc.? What about my comment about thread safety of syslog, which you have not addressed?

Marking this item's status as Pending (i.e. ball in your court) and resolution as Rejected (indicating that the patch cannot be accepted as is due to breakage on Windows).