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.
-
+ Other seek operations or offsets are not supported because of
+ the special behavior this device has. The device allows to read
+ or write only whole variable length messages (records) that are
+ stored in a ring buffer.
+
+ Because of the non-standard behavior also the error values are
+ non-standard. -ESPIPE is returned for non-zero offset. -EINVAL
+ is returned for other operations, e.g. SEEK_CUR. This behavior
+ and values are historical and could not be modified without the
+ risk of breaking userspace.
+
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,