Re: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages

From: richard -rw- weinberger
Date: Wed Apr 04 2012 - 17:16:07 EST


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just noticed that 'tail -f' doesn't seem to work on /dev/kmsg, should
> it?  Or does it need to do something else to get "just the new ones"?
>

AFAIK tail looks at the file size/timestamp to detect modifications...

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Thanks,
//richard
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