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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:44:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 
> /dev/kmsg was another suggestion for the name.  But please revert the 
> yet-another-syscall variant -- having a duplicate way for logging that 
> doesn't work with stdio just seems sick to me (sys_syslog should die).

Actually, anybody who uses stdio on syslog messages should be roasted. 
Over the nice romantic glow of red-hot coal, slowly cooking the stupid git 
alive.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. A syslog message needs to be atomic, which 
means that it MUST NOT use the buffering of stdio. 

		Linus

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