Bug#100977: RFP: emlog -- the EMbedded-system LOG-device

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Oki DZ <okidz@bdg.pindad.com> wrote on debian-user:
>I think many of us would like to have emlog
>(http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/emlog/) in a .deb file.

The web page says:

   emlog is a Linux kernel module that makes it easy to access the most
   recent (and only the most recent) output from a process. It works just
   like "tail -f" on a log file, except that the storage required never
   grows. This can be useful in embedded systems where there isn't enough
   memory or disk space for keeping complete log files, but the most
   recent debugging messages are sometimes needed (e.g., after an error
   is observed).

   The emlog kernel module implements simple character device driver. The
   driver acts like a named pipe that has a finite, circular buffer. The
   size of the buffer is easily configurable. As more data is written
   into the buffer, the oldest data is discarded. A process that reads
   from an emlog device will first read the existing buffer, then see new
   text as it's written, similar to monitoring a log file using "tail
   -f".

   Version 0.30 of emlog (released March 1, 2001) should work under just
   about any Linux kernel in the 2.x series, including 2.4.

   emlog is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public
   License (GPL); see the file COPYING (in the distribution) for details.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]