Re: klibc and logging

[H. Peter Anvin]

Russell King wrote:
> 
>>I really think this is a bad idea.  The kmsg device has different 
>>properties -- for example, you're supposed to tag things with the 
>>message importance.  It really matches the syslog(3) interface better. 
>>Also, the special case makes me nervous.
> 
> Without something like this, it means that effectively the "echo" command
> wouldn't be useable, or you'd have to pipe the output of all scripts
> through some program/to /dev/kmsg.
> 
> Or we just forget logging the messages from initramfs scripts.
> 

Either we can add a "syslog" binary, or you can:

echo '<3>The dohickey is fscked' > /dev/kmsg

	-hpa