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Subject: Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD
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M. Warner Losh wrote:

>In message: <4479C171.4050403@elischer.org>
>            Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
>: killing XConsole is not a small matter. people have that when they are 
>: specifically looking for that information
>
>Recall that this is only for programs that open /dev/console directly
>and write to it, like syslogd.
>
>  
>

the description makes it sound like xconsole would not be able to show 
kernel error messages.

>Warner
>  
>