# A simple routine called by most of the scripts to help debugging. The
# kernel code has a lot of debugging statements, so this helps us keep
# track of what is going on in user-land to generate the kernel messages.
+# We append directly to the messages file instead of using logger so that
+# our checkpoints are not lost when the syslogd is very busy.
plog () {
if [ "$1" = "log" ]; then
shift