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shepherd: internal syslog records not in chronological order

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: burban <at> opopop.net
Cc: 78852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78852: shepherd: internal syslog records not in chronological order
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:43:46 +0200

Hi,

burban <at> opopop.net writes:

> But when ‘system-log’ starts, it would be logical to flush first
> /proc/kmesg while keeping on hold it's own messaging until that is
> done.

OK.  As it stands, flushing /dev/kmsg before the other messages get
written is hard to implement: /dev/kmsg is considered as just one of
several sources of ‘system-log’, which just logs every line of every
source as soon as it’s available—hence the interleaving.

It needs more thought though, maybe we can find a way to do that.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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