> The patch will not fix the underlying problem, but just make it behave > more like it was and allow partial message reads. This is a years old > problem, the net is full of bugreports of stuff going wrong with > running dd bs=1 on /proc/kmsg. It is a really stupid idea, and can not > work for many other reasons too. The interface can not safely be used > that way, it does not have the usual semantics, it always returned 0 > for read() whenever it needed to.
If you are breaking the semantics perhaps that should also get fixed ? Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
