linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages

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Date:	Thu, 5 Apr 2012 10:44:29 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:38, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 21:59 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> From: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
>> + * In a flat text stream of records, every record should be terminated
>> + * by "\n\n", which separates the records from each other.
>
> What do you do about "\n\n" in existing printks?
>
> $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] '\bprintk\b.*\\n\\n' *

Messages with non-printable characters are exported to the syslog()
syscall or /proc/kmsg as they are, like it always was, but the export
to /dev/kmsg encodes the MESSAGE= property as a binary property then.

Kay
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