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SubjectRe: klibc and logging
Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:41:03AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>Requires too much to work before it's can be made available.
>>
>>Andrew Morton sent me a proposed patch last night which adds a klogctl
>>(a.k.a. sys_syslog) which does a printk() from userspace. It was less
>>than 10 lines; i.e. probably worth it. I have hooked this up to
>>syslog(3) in klibc, although the code is not checked in yet.
>
>
> Rather, why not have the file descriptor early userspace gets called
> with point to a file that printk's whatever is written to it? That
> makes more sense as the early init stuff really should end up in the
> kernel's log buffer.
>

That was the other possibility that I suggested... either way is fine
with me. The file descriptor has a few advantages; although I would
personally make a klogctl() to return it rather than having it passed in.

-hpa


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