[BusyBox] init syslog messages have ^M

Paul Fox pgf at brightstareng.com
Tue Nov 30 15:52:25 UTC 2004


 > 
 > No. The message() function used for
 > 1) start messages
 > 2) fatal problems
 > 3) shutdown messages
 > its points can show to console.
 > 3 point usually used with "\r" to console.
 > I think, the patch
 > - syslog(LOG_INFO, "%s", msg);
 > + syslog(LOG_INFO, "%s", msg + 1);
 > is more correct.

this fixes the syslog issue, but a better fix is to never
generate the extra '\r' at all.

why is it ever correct for init to possibly overwrite information
which is already on the user's console?

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com



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