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Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:35:24 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: test/review: /dev/console logging patch 
Message-ID:  <25628.977121324@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:06:40 PST." <XFMail.001217150640.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Dec 17 13:00:26 <console.info> Master /boot/kernel/kernel: Doing
>> additional network setup:
>> Dec 17 13:00:26 <console.info> Master /boot/kernel/kernel: ntpdate
>> Dec 17 13:00:26 <console.info> Master /boot/kernel/kernel: ntpd
>> Dec 17 13:00:27 <console.info> Master /boot/kernel/kernel: portmap
>> Dec 17 13:00:27 <console.info> Master /boot/kernel/kernel: .
>
>The '.'s are simple and not too cluttery.  Fixing the console to line buffer
>what it sends to log(9) is a better fix, IMO.

I specifically decided not to do this because I want to be able to
see stuff like:

	echo -n "Press return to avoid disaster: " > /dev/console
	read < /dev/console

Of course one could add timeouts and what's not, but then imagine
the case of two programs writing on /dev/console at the same time...

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