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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg index f307506eb54c..1e6c28b1942b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access seek after the last record available at the time the last SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR was issued. + Due to the record nature of this interface with a "read all" + behavior and the specific positions each seek operation sets, + SEEK_CUR is not supported, returning -ESPIPE (invalid seek) to + errno whenever requested. + The output format consists of a prefix carrying the syslog prefix including priority and facility, the 64 bit message sequence number and the monotonic timestamp in microseconds, |