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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:04:07 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To:        "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cpu info in userland 
Message-ID:  <nospam-1011751447.75737@bambi.gbch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020122175631.A83184@blossom.cjclark.org>  of Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:56:31 PST
References:  <20020122113351.A25927@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020122155202.J2872@numachi.com> <3C4DD39B.2050906@rambo.simx.org> <20020122161406.L2872@numachi.com> <nospam-1011750084.73718@bambi.gbch.net> <20020122175631.A83184@blossom.cjclark.org> 

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"Crist J . Clark" wrote:

| On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:41:24AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
| > Brian Reichert wrote:
| > 
| > | I've seen situations where 'dmesg' (and by extension dmesg.boot)
| > | will contain multiple passes of device probes, etc.  I could easily
| > | be imagining this, as I can't think of a mechanism to allow for
| > | it, nor a reason to do it...
| > 
| > You're not imagining it -- certainly 4.4-RELEASE does this.
| 
| If you drop to single-user and go back to multi-user, dmesg.boot gets
| written again in rc(8). I have patched rc(8) to only write dmesg.boot
| at boot. I should look again at committing that.

I have never dropped to single-user.  But my 4.4-RELEASE laptop
has the records of several full reboots in /var/run/dmesg.boot,
which I really wish it wouldn't ...

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