> Proposed cool feature, found in BSD/OS:
> 
> On the way up, the system diffs dmesg.boot with the "current" dmesg
> output, right before storing the new dmesg.boot.

Hmm ...

--- etc/rc.d/dmesg-	Wed May 17 10:14:05 2000
+++ retc/c.d/dmesg	Thu Jun 15 12:56:00 2000
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 do_dmesg()
 {
-	rm -f /var/run/dmesg.boot
+	mv /var/run/dmesg.boot /var/run/dmesg.boot-
 	dmesg $dmesg_flags > /var/run/dmesg.boot
 }
 
?

J

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