[Bug-sysutils] Re: RFC dmesgd

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:29:19AM -0800, Barry deFreese wrote:
> Howdy folks,
> 
> Here is the dmesgd that I was working on.  If any of you have time I 
> would appreciate some comments/suggestions.

Asides from what Alfred said, it'd be nice if it supported -s.  From the
util-linux dmesg manpage:

         -sbufsize
              Use a buffer of size bufsize to query the  kernel  ring  buffer.
              This  is  16392  by  default.  (The default kernel syslog buffer
              size was 4096 at first, 8192 since 1.3.54, 16384 since 2.1.113.)
              If  you have set the kernel buffer to be larger than the default
              then this option can be used to view the entire buffer.

Of course, this doesn't make sense with the generic backend, but can be
provided for compatibility.  Also, we could expect that kernel-specific
backends will be added in the future.

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