Re: lseek on /proc/kmsg

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

linux-os wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>> how am I supposed to clear the kmsg buffer since it's not a terminal??
>>
>>
>> fd = open("/proc/kmsg", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
>> while(read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) > 0);
>> if(errno == EAGAIN) { printf("Clear!\n"); }
>>
>> This is language (spoken-wise) neutral :p
>>
> 
> Gawd, you are a hacker. I already have to suck on pipes
> because I can't seek them. Now, I can't even seek a
> file-system???!!

I'm not sure that seek makes any sense on that, since it is more like a 
pipe than a normal file..

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