writes to /dev/kmsg

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:34 PM Lev Olshvang <levonshe at yandex.com> wrote:

> Kernel documentation describes interface
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg
>

The 4th line of this document, "Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>" tells me a lot
about the kind of application that uses it.

I suggest reading up on it in

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935

and maybe also in this thread:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01331.html

I wonder what kind of applications use it?
> Why somebody need to use kmsg instead of syslog?
>

PID #1 before filesystems have been mounted and before any other facility
is made available - see above.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
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