Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:44:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] printk from userspace |
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > /dev/kmsg was another suggestion for the name. But please revert the > yet-another-syscall variant -- having a duplicate way for logging that > doesn't work with stdio just seems sick to me (sys_syslog should die).
Actually, anybody who uses stdio on syslog messages should be roasted. Over the nice romantic glow of red-hot coal, slowly cooking the stupid git alive.
It's not a bug, it's a feature. A syslog message needs to be atomic, which means that it MUST NOT use the buffering of stdio.
Linus
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