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Date:      Sun, 28 May 2006 16:26:23 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20060528062623.GO744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <67EC575F-CEE3-43DF-A811-18930687DABD@orthanc.ca>
References:  <16029.1148764704@critter.freebsd.dk> <67EC575F-CEE3-43DF-A811-18930687DABD@orthanc.ca>

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On Sat, 2006-May-27 23:12:29 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>reads didn't empty the buffer.  But I did like how easy it was to  
>examine the buffer with crash after a panic.  While this isn't  
>directly applicable to BSD, I do like the concept of having that  
>kernel message log.

FreeBSD has had a message buffer as long as I can remember.  Look in
<sys/msgbuf.h> for the API and kern.msgbuf for the content.  I can't
find any man pages on it.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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