/* dmesg.c -- Print out the contents of the kernel ring buffer * Created: Sat Oct 9 16:19:47 1993 * Revised: Thu Oct 28 21:52:17 1993 by faith@cs.unc.edu * Copyright 1993 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu) * This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. * Modifications by Rick Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) * Larger buffersize 3 June 1998 by Nicolai Langfeldt, based on a patch * by Peeter Joot. This was also suggested by John Hudson. * 1999-02-22 Arkadiusz Mi¶kiewicz * - added Native Language Support * */ /* * Commands to sys_syslog: * * 0 -- Close the log. Currently a NOP. * 1 -- Open the log. Currently a NOP. * 2 -- Read from the log. * 3 -- Read all messages remaining in the ring buffer. * 4 -- Read and clear all messages remaining in the ring buffer * 5 -- Clear ring buffer. * 6 -- Disable printk's to console * 7 -- Enable printk's to console * 8 -- Set level of messages printed to console * 9 -- Return number of unread characters in the log buffer * [supported since 2.4.10] * * Only function 3 is allowed to non-root processes. */ #include #include #include #include #include "nls.h" #if __GNU_LIBRARY__ < 5 #ifndef __alpha__ # define __NR_klogctl __NR_syslog static inline _syscall3(int, klogctl, int, type, char *, b, int, len); #else /* __alpha__ */ #define klogctl syslog #endif #else # include #endif static char *progname; static void usage(void) { fprintf(stderr, _("Usage: %s [-c] [-n level] [-s bufsize]\n"), progname); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *buf; int sz; int bufsize = 0; int i; int n; int c; int level = 0; int lastc; int cmd = 3; /* Read all messages in the ring buffer */ setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); textdomain(PACKAGE); progname = argv[0]; while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "cn:s:")) != -1) { switch (c) { case 'c': cmd = 4; /* Read and clear all messages */ break; case 'n': cmd = 8; /* Set level of messages */ level = atoi(optarg); break; case 's': bufsize = atoi(optarg); if (bufsize < 4096) bufsize = 4096; break; case '?': default: usage(); exit(1); } } argc -= optind; argv += optind; if (argc > 1) { usage(); exit(1); } if (cmd == 8) { n = klogctl(cmd, NULL, level); if (n < 0) { perror("klogctl"); exit(1); } exit(0); } if (!bufsize) { n = klogctl(10, NULL, 0); /* read ringbuffer size */ if (n > 0) bufsize = n; } if (bufsize) { sz = bufsize + 8; buf = (char *) malloc(sz); n = klogctl(cmd, buf, sz); } else { sz = 16392; while (1) { buf = (char *) malloc(sz); n = klogctl(3, buf, sz); /* read only */ if (n != sz || sz > (1<<28)) break; free(buf); sz *= 4; } if (n > 0 && cmd == 4) n = klogctl(cmd, buf, sz); /* read and clear */ } if (n < 0) { perror("klogctl"); exit(1); } lastc = '\n'; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { if ((i == 0 || buf[i - 1] == '\n') && buf[i] == '<') { i++; while (buf[i] >= '0' && buf[i] <= '9') i++; if (buf[i] == '>') i++; } lastc = buf[i]; putchar(lastc); } if (lastc != '\n') putchar('\n'); return 0; }