Am 06.04.2011 02:09, schrieb Minas Abrahamyan:
Hi all,
I'm going to implement dmesg.exe, a ROS application to read dmesg/kmsg buffer (debug messages in kernel buffer), which is filled in by appropriate patch 6018 (here: http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6018 ) (BTW, it's not yet reviewed and not applied!).
So I'm requesting advice on: What would be the better way for user-mode code to get the contents of kmsg buffer in kernel-space (kdbg)?
Shortly: Linux has special system call "syslog" (man 2 syslog) FreeBSD uses its special sysctl interface to kernel along with 'kern.msgbuf' parameter.
My questions: Do we need special system call like Linux, or even more, the whole family of them (sysctl('*')) as in BSD? How to implement simple system call for it, now?
I'm not one of the ReactOS devs and also I'm not writing much here, but what about implementing a (legacy type) device driver that provides a device object (e.g. \Device\kmsg) that can be read from (no writing though) and some code for DeviceIOControl to clear/config the buffer?
Regards, Sven