David Laight wrote:

> > there are pipes and tail in ddb?  wow!  :-)
> 
> Ooops - need to read the mail properly :-)
> 
> Actually is it worth doing a count of lines (ie scan back counting
> newline characters) rather than a byte count?

Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort (at least _my_ effort
:-). It would pretty mean a total re-write of the db_dmesg() function,
anding more complexity.

Simon.
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