Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:34:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: opentrax@email.com Cc: bright@wintelcom.net, duan@cs.umn.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printf() Message-ID: <200011101034.eAAAYk906022@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:12:59 PST." <200011101013.CAA01227@spammie.svbug.com>
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> >> Does the kernel function printf() flushes the output immediately, or it is
> >> possible some data is buffered somewhere and gets lost without printing
> >> to the console? like the corresponding funtion in the c library.
> >
> > It's not buffered afaik.
> >
> Actually my experince in writing drivers (for 386bsd) showed (me)
> that the kernel printf() was buffered.
Considerable (ie. shitloads) of experience using the kernel printf with
FreeBSD (not to mention reading the code line by line as I ported it for
libstand) allows me to tell you that it isn't.
And you're welcome to go read the code yourself, should you choose to
take issue with that. 8)
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