A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun May 28 01:13:53 PDT 2006


In message <20060528.011932.1220016372.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:

>LOG_CONS happens only when it can't sent the message to syslogd(8).
>LOG_PERROR will also print it on stderr.  LOG_CONS would then
>degenerate into LOG_PERROR.

No, it would degenerate into the nonexistent LOG_TTY.

stderr and /dev/tty are not the same thing, and it is impossible to
declare one better than the other:  they have different semantics.

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