Ah, I see. Thank you. I didn't know about it before.
2010/9/6 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>:
> On 09/06/10 10:39, Alexander Hall wrote:
>> On 09/06/10 16:18, Tomas Vavrys wrote:
>>> A friend of mine has old Asus A3F and I have found a very interesting
>>> bug in dmesg. When I type dmesg I don't get regular dmesg output. It
>>> starts in the middle of regular dmesg output and then it prints it 2
>>> more times.
>>
>> $ whatis dmesg
>> dmesg (8) - display the system message buffer
>>
>> The buffer is not emptied on reboot on all machines. What you see is
>> likely leftovers from previous boot(s).
>
> and at times, this is a wonderful feature.
> (and usually when I most want it, it is on a machine which wipes memory
> on boot. :-/ )
>
> Nick.