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SubjectRe: [PATCH] report size of printk buffer
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> > If one asks for count bytes, one gets the last count bytes of output,
> > not the first.
>
> That doesn't answer the question, why don't you just clear the data that
> was read?

Think about it.
The buffer is 131072 bytes. We read the final 16384 bytes.
Now what?


[There are other problems as well, but I do not want to start a complicated
conversation for a triviality.]
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