[BusyBox 0000627]: new logread option: -n (like tail)

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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=627 
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Reported By:                akvadrako
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   627
Category:                   New Features
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             01-06-2006 12:45 PST
Last Modified:              01-22-2006 16:36 PST
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Summary:                    new logread option: -n (like tail)
Description: 
This patch adds an option to logread to only display the latest certain #
of lines.  This is very useful since there is no logfile to run tail on
and the entire ring buffer must be copied for tail to work.  On my system
(10MB logfile, 128MB memory) this really isn't practical.

This is tested on i386 with linux 2.6.
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 landley - 01-22-06 16:36  
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What's wrong with logread | tail -n ? 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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01-06-06 12:45  akvadrako      New Issue                                    
01-06-06 12:45  akvadrako      Status                   new => assigned     
01-06-06 12:45  akvadrako      Assigned To               => BusyBox         
01-06-06 12:45  akvadrako      File Added: busybox-logread-dash-n.patch         
          
01-22-06 16:36  landley        Note Added: 0000977                          
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