Re: [PATCH] Warn if we run out of swap space

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
>> We really should have a machine readable channel for this sort of 
>> information, so it can be plumbed to a userspace notification bubble the 
>> user can ignore.
>>     
>
> That could just be printk().  It's a question of a) how to tell
> userspace which bits to pay attention to and maybe b) adding some
> more structure to the text.
>
> Perhaps careful use of faciliy levels would suffice for a), but I
> expect that some new tagging scheme would be more practical.
>   

I thought dmesg was an unreliable channel which can overflow.  It's also 
prone to attacks by spell checkers.

I prefer reliable binary interfaces to shell explorable text interfaces 
as I think any feature worth having is much more useful controlled by an 
application rather than a bored sysadmin.

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