[RFC] Prepend timestamp in msgbuf

[Alexander Best]

On Fri Oct 14 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20111014085609.GA3799 at freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes:
> 
> >1) would it be possible to prepend those timestamps to the actual console
> >output and not only to the output of demsg? maybe via a sysctl toggle?
> 
> The kernel does not know enough about timezones to emit anything
> but UTC timestamps.

hmm ok.

> 
> >2) my dmesg output contains a lot of these entries: "<118>"
> 
> These are magic markers for syslogd(8) specifying priority.

it would be nice, if their output could be turned off via a dmesg flag imo.

> 
> >3) roughly the first 30 lines of my dmesg output have the timestamp "[1.0]".
> >would it be possible to have more accuracy there?
> 
> No, because we don't know the time until we've found the RTC chip.

maybe prepending the output with [??] instead of [1.0] would make more sense,
so users knows that those timestamps are bogus.

cheers.
alex

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