Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:59:29 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: klibc and logging |
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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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