Re: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 23:16, richard -rw- weinberger
<richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I just noticed that 'tail -f' doesn't seem to work on /dev/kmsg, should
>> it? ÂOr 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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