From 7f3caba522f4d24764f29d83aa2de9198bb7f01c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 06:52:22 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.8. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man/man5/proc_kmsg.5 | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man5/proc_kmsg.5 (limited to 'man/man5/proc_kmsg.5') diff --git a/man/man5/proc_kmsg.5 b/man/man5/proc_kmsg.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e488e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/proc_kmsg.5 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_kmsg 5 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +/proc/kmsg \- kernel messages +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.I /proc/kmsg +This file can be used instead of the +.BR syslog (2) +system call to read kernel messages. +A process must have superuser +privileges to read this file, and only one process should read this +file. +This file should not be read if a syslog process is running +which uses the +.BR syslog (2) +system call facility to log kernel messages. +.IP +Information in this file is retrieved with the +.BR dmesg (1) +program. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) -- cgit v1.2.3