A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Sat May 27 23:35:15 PDT 2006


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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