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More: printk description bug?

Forum: Supporting Functions
Re: Disagree Bug in printk description! (Theodore Ts'o)
Keywords: printk description bug
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:00:04 GMT
From: Chris Arena <ccarena@mail.bcn.net>

Is there a guarantee that what you will printk will be strictly 
in the kernel, or perhaps something from the user space? 

For complete generality, you may need to keep in mind that
implicit I/O could occur if you were to go outside the bounds
of the kernel to the user space. Therefor, the description is
OK.

Does this make sense?

Chris Arena