On 09/06/10 10:39, Alexander Hall wrote: > On 09/06/10 16:18, Tomas Vavrys wrote: >> A friend of mine has old Asus A3F and I have found a very interesting >> bug in dmesg. When I type dmesg I don't get regular dmesg output. It >> starts in the middle of regular dmesg output and then it prints it 2 >> more times. > > $ whatis dmesg > dmesg (8) - display the system message buffer > > The buffer is not emptied on reboot on all machines. What you see is > likely leftovers from previous boot(s).
and at times, this is a wonderful feature. (and usually when I most want it, it is on a machine which wipes memory on boot. :-/ ) Nick.
