Re: writes to /dev/kmsg

Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:14:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.region.israel,gmane.linux.kernel.kernelnewbies
Message-ID <CAM+3FtQ7nbmLHB+XkCh41Ay6P9txwuU3144_Qddnt08TBFYghA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:34 PM Lev Olshvang <levonshe-zJpx2rpV7r/[email protected]> wrote:

> Kernel documentation describes interface
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
>

The 4th line of this document, "Kay Sievers <[email protected]>" tells me a lot
about the kind of application that uses it.

I suggest reading up on it in

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935

and maybe also in this thread:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html

I wonder what kind of applications use it?
> Why somebody need to use kmsg instead of syslog?
>

PID #1 before filesystems have been mounted and before any other facility
is made available - see above.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | [email protected]

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