From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 22 18: 4:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96EDC37B416 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:04:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 75776 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jan 2002 12:04:07 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.23 27-Nov-2001 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 13 days, 18:29 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:04:07 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "Crist J . Clark" Cc: Brian Reichert , "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" , Brooks Davis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpu info in userland References: <20020122113351.A25927@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020122155202.J2872@numachi.com> <3C4DD39B.2050906@rambo.simx.org> <20020122161406.L2872@numachi.com> <20020122175631.A83184@blossom.cjclark.org> In-reply-to: <20020122175631.A83184@blossom.cjclark.org> of Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:56:31 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message