Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 1998 18:56:36 +0200 | From | Alexander Kjeldaas <> | Subject | Re: using old style /proc/pci and /dev/cua? |
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On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 10:08:57AM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Hello guys, > > In recent 2.1.x kernels, when a user process accesses /proc/pci I get a > message that such and such uses obsolete /proc/pci. Ok, that is fine... > but why do I only get the first message, i.e. if some other process does > it as well, nothing is logged. > Shouldn't it warn user about everyone/everything using the old semantics? > > Try cat /proc/pci ; dmesg ; vi /proc/pci ; dmesg and you will see that > access by cat(1) is logged while the access by vi(1) is not. > > The same thing happens with /dev/cua? devices, i.e. only the first attempt > is logged. >
Some warning messages that could be annoying and potentially produce a lot of garbage in the logs are only printed a few times and then disabled. This is intentional and IMO a good idea.
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/
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