Re: kmsg --- get the boot messages

[OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: kmsg --- get the boot messages
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 16:59:46 +0200

> The ^C indicates that you need to press CTRL-C to exit, because
> the read blocks. Also, the buffer is FLUSHED, so you can only read once.

  So we should port klogd to Hurd, so that we can see kernel messages
as many times as we like. This shouldn't be difficult.

> There are other character devices in gnumach. For example, kbd and mouse.
> But the reason that there are special translators for them is that
> they need some special treatment. For example, you need to be able
> to set the keyboard in event mode, using a ioctl().

  That's not a good reason. Our plan was to add loadable module
support into streamdev and storeio, so the user could do like
"settrans /dev/mouse /hurd/streamdev --special=psaux" instead of
writing one translator for each device. But this isn't implemented
yet, since I started working on GRUB rather than Hurd, and Roland also
had other (possibly more important) things.

Thanks,
Okuji