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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:51:33 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dmesg date/timestamps 
Message-ID:  <199906212351.QAA01066@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:50:29 EDT." <22750.930009029@brown.pfcs.com> 

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> If syslogd is up and running (and the data gets stored before the system 
> dies) there is a good chance that syslogd will timestamp the messages.

I don't think this would be a good idea.  Syslogd does a fine job of 
adding timestamps; there aren't any really relevant cases in which 
having timestamps added by the kernel would help where syslogd couldn't 
have done the job itself.

This service doesn't belong in the kernel.

-- 
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\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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