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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D215836

Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |mjg@FreeBSD.org

--- Comment #1 from Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org> ---
>@@ -109,6 +112,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> 	if (argc !=3D 0)
> 		usage();
>=20
>+again:
>+
> 	if (memf =3D=3D NULL) {
> 		/*
> 		 * Running kernel.  Use sysctl.  This gives an unwrapped buffer
>@@ -203,15 +208,26 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> 			}
> 		}
>=20
>+		if (*p =3D=3D '\0') continue;
>+
> 		(void)strvisx(visbp, p, nextp - p, 0);
>-		(void)printf("%s", visbp);
>+		if (*visbp !=3D '\n') (void)printf("%s", visbp);
> 	}
>+
>+	free (bp);
>+	free (visbp);
>+
>+	if (loop) {
>+		usleep(100000);
>+		goto again;
>+	}
>+
> 	exit(0);
> }
>=20

I'm afraid this approach is a non-starter. Entries in dmesg show up extreme=
ly
rarely and waking up periodically to check it quite wasteful, especially so
with this frequency.

Luckily, /dev/klog supports kqueue so you can use that to get notified.

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