Re: bin/54729: dmesg(8) trims leading whitespaces of kernel messages

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/54729; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/54729: dmesg(8) trims leading whitespaces of kernel messages
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:05:30 +0700

 This is a side effect of the way that dmesg(8) parses and then
 regenerates the timestamp field (in different possible formats).
 
 It is probably possible to fix it to preserve the spaces (after
 the first one) after the timestamp if doing so really is important
 for something.
 
 kre