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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: bin/43434: New option to 'dmesg' which allow to display or not old boot messages
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The following reply was made to PR bin/43434; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_Nephtali?= <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/43434: New option to 'dmesg' which allow to display or not old boot messages
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:57:28 -0700

 On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:36:52PM +0200, Aurélien Nephtali wrote:
 > 
 >       Some times it could be usefull to display only the last boot
 >       message (ie: when grep'ing).  The attached patch modifies
 >       sys/kern/subr_prf.c and dmesg.c (and the also the manual).  It
 >       adds a tag (---<<<BOOT>>>---) at the begining of each boot
 >       message (the tag macro is stored in sys/sys/msgbuf.h and could
 >       also be stored in /usr/include/msgbuf.h) dmesg.c is modified
 >       and has a new option: -o, which when it is specified, displays
 >       the full content of the message buffer, otherwise only the last
 >       message is displayed).  This patch has been tested (by me :p)
 >       without any troubles on -CURRENT.
 
 This was my propsed solution to this annoyance so I agree with it. :)  I
 haven't had time to test and fully review this change so I asked
 Aurélien to put it in a PR in hopes that someone else will have to time
 to commit it or something similar.
 
 -- Brooks

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