On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:01:03 +0100 Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote:
> On 3/11/22 10:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a function to convert bintime to a human readable format > > > in the kernel... and what is the usual format we use? > > > > > > The use case for this is: if something throws a log from the kernel > about > > a signal, I want to know when it happened, or in terms of code see > below > > (tabs are most probably messed up). > > > > Do we have some kind of policy in terms of kernel messages and > > > timestamps? Like "do not commit logging with timestamps"? I have the > code > > below because I needed it at least once and think something like > this (in > > a human readably shape) would be beneficial to have in the tree. > > > > Hi, > > I think our kernel printer doesn't support this: > > sys/kern/subr_prf.c > Do you mean the %zd? kvprintf() checks for a zflag and handles the argument as size_t or ssize_t, depending on whether the sign is positive or negative. However, %n isn't supported. > If you need to extend the format, please check other OS'es too, like > OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux, what they support, so there won't be any > obvious conflicts when moving code cross platforms! > -- Gary Jennejohn
