On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:52:25 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 01:48 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 01:39 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > >> > # 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. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel