Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934991AbXLNA1u (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:27:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764435AbXLNA1j (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:27:39 -0500 Received: from nofear-snat.bivio.net ([216.142.75.231]:31926 "EHLO corpexc01.corp.networkrobots.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763787AbXLNA1i convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:27:38 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 975 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:27:38 EST X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: printf internals Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:07:41 -0800 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: printf internals Thread-Index: Acg95VfP5UnACjvFRfybz++UCeatKg== From: "Siva Prasad" To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 571 Lines: 19 Hi, I am looking at how exactly does the printf in user programs succeeds in displaying characters to the serial console. printf uses /dev/console to write the data. Once written to /dev/console, what happens to the string written? Is there any way, I can get access to those prints/string inside the kernel? Thanks Siva -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/