Re: lseek on /proc/kmsg

[linux-os]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > how am I supposed to clear the kmsg buffer since it's not a terminal??
>
> fd = open("/proc/kmsg", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
> while(read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) > 0);
> if(errno == EAGAIN) { printf("Clear!\n"); }
>
> This is language (spoken-wise) neutral :p

Gawd, you are a hacker. I already have to suck on pipes
because I can't seek them. Now, I can't even seek a
file-system???!!

> Jan Engelhardt
> --

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