Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:49:06 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer |
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On a 2.6.31 system, immediately after SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_CLEAR, a >>> SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD returns 0. >> >> Hmm, sounds like the right thing to do. > > Right. > > And that's the *OLD* behavior (2.6.31).
Ah, hmm, I read 2.6... as 3.6... :)
> So the new behavior is insane and different. Let's fix it.
Yeah.
> It looks like it is because the new SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD code > does not take the new clear_seq code into account. Hmm?
Right, something like that. I'll take a look now ...
Thanks, Kay
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