Re: proposing patches (was: Colored kernel messages on serial console)

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:37:37 -0400
> From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>
> 
> I actually thought the "sysctl for bytes to be prepended; sysctl for bytes to
> be postpended" proposal was rather clever.  I wouldn't object to that going
> in; I'd never set it, but it should default to unset.

For such a mechanism to work reliably you'd need to filter the output
through a little state machine (like our cnmagic state machine) to
escape the quoted content too.