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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [PATCH 3/3] syslogd: add option to log to Linux kernel printk buffer
From:       Peter Korsgaard <jacmet () sunsite ! dk>
Date:       2013-01-06 19:57:21
Message-ID: 87vcbaf5jy.fsf () dell ! be ! 48ers ! dk
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

Hi,

 Mike> On Saturday 05 January 2013 18:07:19 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >> Why invent our own shared memory circular buffer when the kernel has a
 >> perfectly fine one already?
 >> 
 >> This can be used as a smaller/simpler alternative to the syslogd IPC
 >> support (as IPC shmem/klogd/logread aren't needed), while also allowing
 >> centralised logging of everything (kernel messages, userspace bootup and
 >> syslog) when used together with ttyprintk.
 >> 
 >> Notice that kernel 3.5+ is needed to store syslog facility in printk
 >> buffer, otherwise only the priority is stored.

 Mike> pushed since the patch follows existing style

Thanks!

What happened to Denys? I haven't seen any mails from him the last month
or so. There's quite a bit of new features waiting in git, and 1.20 is 9
months old, so a 1.21 release would be very nice.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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