Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:24:45 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] Prepend timestamp in msgbuf Message-ID: <20111014092445.GA11785@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <40448.1318582809@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20111014085609.GA3799@freebsd.org> <40448.1318582809@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri Oct 14 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20111014085609.GA3799@freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes: > > >1) would it be possible to prepend those timestamps to the actual console > >output and not only to the output of demsg? maybe via a sysctl toggle? > > The kernel does not know enough about timezones to emit anything > but UTC timestamps. hmm ok. > > >2) my dmesg output contains a lot of these entries: "<118>" > > These are magic markers for syslogd(8) specifying priority. it would be nice, if their output could be turned off via a dmesg flag imo. > > >3) roughly the first 30 lines of my dmesg output have the timestamp "[1.0]". > >would it be possible to have more accuracy there? > > No, because we don't know the time until we've found the RTC chip. maybe prepending the output with [??] instead of [1.0] would make more sense, so users knows that those timestamps are bogus. cheers. alex > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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