Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:00:31 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: julian@elischer.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <18082.1148803231@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 May 2006 01:19:32 MDT." <20060528.011932.1220016372.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20060528.011932.1220016372.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes : >LOG_CONS happens only when it can't sent the message to syslogd(8). >LOG_PERROR will also print it on stderr. LOG_CONS would then >degenerate into LOG_PERROR. No, it would degenerate into the nonexistent LOG_TTY. stderr and /dev/tty are not the same thing, and it is impossible to declare one better than the other: they have different semantics. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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