Lev Olshvang <levonshe@yandex.com> writes:

Kernel documentation describes interface https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg   I wonder what kind of applications use it? Why somebody need to use kmsg instead of syslog?   Can anybody give example of such application?

Can't answer your first two good questions. But here is a well known example application: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/basic/log.c#L109 Bjørn