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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:04:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: test/review: /dev/console logging patch
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001217150456.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20743.977081023@critter>

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On 17-Dec-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> This patch is for the printf(9), log(9) & /dev/console stuff.
> The result is that you can watch the output from /etc/rc in
> your /var/log/messages.
> 
> Poul-Henning
> 
> 
> 1. Replace logwakeup() with msgbuftrigger++;  There is little
>    point in calling a function to set a flag.

Abstraction to keep other code from having to know the iternals of the log(9)
device?  Maybe use a #define for logwakeup() that does the msgbuftrigger++ to
keep the abstraction w/o the overhead?

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