[PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:52:25 -0700
Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 01:48 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 01:39 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

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# echo "\001Hello Andrew" > /dev/kmsg
/dev/kmsg has
12,774,2462339252;\001Hello Andrew

Try "echo -e"? The stuff is copied verbatim otherwise.

# echo -e "\001Hello Kay" > /dev/kmsg
gives
12,776,3046752764;\x01Hello Kay

Don't you need two bytes to trigger the logic?

Yes.  Angle brackets fore and aft.

he means

	echo "\0014Hello Joe" > /dev/kmsg
	          ^

It needs one of [0-7cd] to trigger the prefix handling.