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Date:      Tue, 07 Aug 2001 19:36:11 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        les@safety.net
Cc:        julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), K.J.Koster@kpn.com (Koster K.J.), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dmesg behaviour 
Message-ID:  <34370.997205771@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:31:40 PDT." <200108071731.KAA91767@safety.net> 

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In message <200108071731.KAA91767@safety.net>, Les Biffle writes:
>> this is a wonderful feature that has saved my butt many times
>> (working in the kernel it's REALLY nice to have 
>> the last panic message in the dmesg buffer.)
>> learn to love it.. :-)
>
>I can see the benefits.  I will re-write the programs and scripts that
>eat the dmesg output to look for the last boot, but I'm concerned that
>the behavior is different on different platforms.  I really hate mysterious
>platform differences.

The console-log code is machine-independent apart from the initial
allocation of the space, so don't expect differences in this area.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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