From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 4 13: 1:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB14337B409 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:01:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f94K1JM57594 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4083809; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: log(9) bug? or feature? In-Reply-To: <672.1002222287@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:01:19 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011004200119.8E4083809@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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the comment is out of date?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 -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message