Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:01:19 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: log(9) bug? or feature? Message-ID: <20011004200119.8E4083809@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <672.1002222287@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200110021155.UAA10794@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, Kazutaka Y
OK
> OTA writes:
>
> >In rev 1.67 and later, the message goes to the log buffer only if a
> >process is reading the log buffer. If no process is reading, the
> >message goes to the console ONLY, and it is not put into the log
> >buffer. This behavior is inconsistent with the above comment. Is this
> >a bug introduced in rev 1.67, or is it the intended new behavior and
> >the comment is out of date?
>
> Actually, I think this is consistent, since console messages is now
> also put in the buffer, but I am not 100% sure...
Actually, I *desperately* want a way to turn this off. I've backed out a
bunch of changes locally on some machines, and we're considering doing this
at Yahoo too. Having the userland /dev/console output blow away the kernel
msgbuf is an absolute nightmare.
Cheers,
-Peter
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