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SubjectRe: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 23:16, richard -rw- weinberger
<richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@kroah.com> 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...

It uses inotify when available, these days.

Kay
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