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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] syslog: Add type 10
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages () googlemail ! com>
Date: 2008-02-14 18:53:49
Message-ID: 47B48E3D.8040504 () gmail ! com
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Hi Jeremy,
Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Since 2.6.6, we've had another type (10) option to the syslog syscall,
> this change adds it to the syslog manpage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
>
> ---
>
> man2/syslog.2 | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Index: man-pages-2.77/man2/syslog.2
> ===================================================================
> --- man-pages-2.77.orig/man2/syslog.2
> +++ man-pages-2.77/man2/syslog.2
> @@ -66,19 +66,20 @@ Quoting from
> * 7 \-\- Enable printk's to console
> * 8 \-\- Set level of messages printed to console
> * 9 \-\- Return number of unread characters in the log buffer
> + * 10 \-\- Return size of the log buffer
> */
> .fi
>
> -Only function 3 is allowed to non-root processes.
> -(Function 9 was added in 2.4.10.)
> +Only functions 3 and 10 are allowed to non-root processes.
A nicely caught detail; confirmed.
> +(Function 9 was added in 2.4.10, function 10 in 2.6.6)
Version number confirmed. Thanks for attending to that detail.
> .B The kernel log buffer
> .br
> The kernel has a cyclic buffer of length
> .B LOG_BUF_LEN
> (4096, since 1.3.54: 8192, since 2.1.113: 16384; in recent kernels
> -the size can be set at compile time) in which messages given as argument
> -to the kernel function
> +the size can be queried with function 10) in which messages given as
> +argument to the kernel function
> .BR printk ()
> are stored
> (regardless of their loglevel).
Patch applied for man-pages-2.79.
But it seems to me that the piece on LOG_BUF_LEN was somewhat out of date.
I reworked it as the following (could you confirm these details?):
===
The kernel has a cyclic buffer of length
.B LOG_BUF_LEN
in which messages given as arguments to the kernel function
.BR printk ()
are stored (regardless of their loglevel).
In early kernels,
.B LOG_BUF_LEN
had the value 4096;
from kernel 1.3.54, it was 8192;
from kernel 2.1.113 it was 16384;
since 2.4.23/2.6 the value is a kernel configuration option.
.\" Under "General setup" ==> "Kernel log buffer size"
In recent kernels the size can be queried with command type 10.
===
Cheers,
Michael
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