misc/36110: dmesg output corrupt if /dev/console is busy

[Robert Watson]

Synopsis: dmesg output corrupt if /dev/console is busy

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: rwatson
State-Changed-When: Sun May 2 15:25:33 PDT 2004
State-Changed-Why: 

This occurs because we use a single combined buffer for both kernel
messages (normally captured in the kernel's msgbuf) and logged
console output (/dev/console).  This results in a variety of problems,
and would probably be best corrected by breaking out msgbuf into two
separate buffers since their contents have different properties.

An important security issue relating to this bug/feature can be found
in bin/25337.


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