<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:34 PM Lev Olshvang <<a href="mailto:levonshe@yandex.com">levonshe@yandex.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Kernel documentation describes interface</div><div><a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg" target="_blank">https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">The 4th line of this document, <span style="font-family:georgia,serif">"Kay Sievers <<a href="mailto:kay@vrfy.org">kay@vrfy.org</a>>"</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> tells me a lot about the kind of application that uses it.</span><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">I suggest reading up on it in</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935</a></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">and maybe also in this thread:</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html">http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html</a></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I wonder what kind of applications use it?</div><div>Why somebody need to use kmsg instead of syslog?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">PID #1 before filesystems have been mounted and before any other facility is made available - see above.</div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Oleg Goldshmidt | <a href="mailto:pub@goldshmidt.org" target="_blank">pub@goldshmidt.org</a></div></div></div></div>