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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: default syslog priority for kernel messages
Message-ID:  <199809020215.TAA00488@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809020040.RAA09710@usr01.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 2, 98 00:40:44 am"

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Terry Lambert writes:
> >   IMHO, printf() in the kernel should be deprecated in favor of log().
> 
> The only problem is that it's possible to printf from the kernel
> without logging, and it may frequently be desirable to send a message
> to the console without logging it.

So then kill syslogd.

Here is the comment in the code:

  /*
   * Log writes to the log buffer, and guarantees not to sleep (so can be
   * called by interrupt routines).  If there is no process reading the
   * log yet, it writes to the console also.
   */     

-Archie

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