Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: escape non-ASCII and control characters inprintk()

[Alan Cox]

> > Your syslog daemon appears to need improvement
> 
> syslogd definitely should (and does) perform escaping of control chars
> for logs written through it.
> 
> > and that would be the right fix for dmesg etc.
> 
> How?  We can't realistically expect everyone to stop invoking dmesg
> directly.  Moreover, this is sometimes useful, although someone who is

No but you could make "dmesg" do filtering.

Alan
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