Subject: Re: Neat feature.
To: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/15/2000 09:17:40
In message <20000615125907.A12252@aire.ncl.ac.uk>, Julian Coleman writes:
>> 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
> }
 
>?

That's certainly a good start.  :)

-s