Re: writes to /dev/kmsg
Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:14:52 +0200
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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] _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il