Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:44:37 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] printk from userspace |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. >
You can do stdio nonbuffered. As a matter of fact, if you're using klogd, it *will* be nonbuffered :^)
The point that Ben is making is that it should be a write() system call instead of something ad hockish, and I think I have to agree with him -- although, again, Andrew's patch does what I need.
-hpa
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