Re: [PATCH] add blockconsole version 1.1

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

On Tue, 24 July 2012 17:42:19 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> Just a minor nuisance: I have this in the log:
> 
> ...
> [   10.498422] console [bcon0] enabled
> [   10.499899] blockconsole: now logging to /dev/sdc at 1
> [   10.594791] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci_hcd
>                                                                                                                                 
> [   12.665911] xhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: xHCI Host Controller
> [   12.668469] xhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
> ...
> 
> which doesn't have the empty line with a bunch of '\s' chars:
> 
> ...
> [   10.498422] console [bcon0] enabled
> [   10.499899] blockconsole: now logging to /dev/sdc at 1
> [   10.594791] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci_hcd
> [   12.665911] xhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: xHCI Host Controller
> [   12.668469] xhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
> ...
> 
> Do you know per-chance why that happens? I have a couple more lines like
> that further in the log file which bcon_tail generated.

If there is no logging for a second, blockconsole will flush the
current sector.  So however much of it is empty will be filled with
spaces and a newline at the end.  Result are those empty lines.

The advantage should be better robustness, in particular when dealing
with cheap flash devices.  Disadvantage is the wasted real estate on
your monitor - although sometimes I have found it nice to have syntax
highlighting (in a way) for pauses in the logging.

Jörn

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