In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Les Biffle writes:
>> this is a wonderful feature that has saved my butt many times
>> (working in the kernel it's REALLY nice to have
>> the last panic message in the dmesg buffer.)
>> learn to love it.. :-)
>
>I can see the benefits. I will re-write the programs and scripts that
>eat the dmesg output to look for the last boot, but I'm concerned that
>the behavior is different on different platforms. I really hate mysterious
>platform differences.
The console-log code is machine-independent apart from the initial
allocation of the space, so don't expect differences in this area.
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