diff --git a/logwrapper/Android.mk b/logwrapper/Android.mk
index b4b6b29..917bf37 100644
--- a/logwrapper/Android.mk
+++ b/logwrapper/Android.mk
@@ -30,5 +30,5 @@
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 LOCAL_SRC_FILES:= logwrapper.c
 LOCAL_MODULE := logwrapper
-LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := liblog liblogwrap
+LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := liblog liblogwrap libcutils
 include $(BUILD_EXECUTABLE)
diff --git a/logwrapper/include/logwrap/logwrap.h b/logwrapper/include/logwrap/logwrap.h
index 2be8736..8087f0a 100644
--- a/logwrapper/include/logwrap/logwrap.h
+++ b/logwrapper/include/logwrap/logwrap.h
@@ -43,7 +43,12 @@
  *           SIGQUIT while logwrap is running. This may force the end-user to
  *           send a signal twice to signal the caller (once for the child, and
  *           once for the caller)
- *   logwrap: when true, log messages from the child
+ *   log_target: Specify where to log the output of the child, either LOG_NONE,
+ *           LOG_ALOG (for the Android system log) or LOG_KLOG (for the kernel
+ *           log).
+ *   abbreviated: If true, capture up to the first 100 lines and last 4K of
+ *           output from the child.  The abbreviated output is not dumped to
+ *           the specified log until the child has exited.
  *
  * Return value:
  *   0 when logwrap successfully run the child process and captured its status
@@ -52,8 +57,26 @@
  *   the return value of the child if it exited properly and status is NULL
  *
  */
-int android_fork_execvp(int argc, char* argv[], int *status, bool ignore_int_quit,
-        bool logwrap);
+
+/* Values for the log_target parameter android_fork_exec_ext() */
+#define LOG_NONE        0
+#define LOG_ALOG        1
+#define LOG_KLOG        2
+
+int android_fork_execvp_ext(int argc, char* argv[], int *status, bool ignore_int_quit,
+        int log_target, bool abbreviated);
+
+/* Similar to above, except abbreviated logging is not available, and if logwrap
+ * is true, logging is to the Android system log, and if false, there is no
+ * logging.
+ */
+static inline int android_fork_execvp(int argc, char* argv[], int *status,
+                                     bool ignore_int_quit, bool logwrap)
+{
+    return android_fork_execvp_ext(argc, argv, status, ignore_int_quit,
+                                   (logwrap ? LOG_ALOG : LOG_NONE), false);
+}
+
 
 __END_DECLS
 
diff --git a/logwrapper/logwrap.c b/logwrapper/logwrap.c
index bf91977..01cc9a1 100644
--- a/logwrapper/logwrap.c
+++ b/logwrapper/logwrap.c
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@
 #include <logwrap/logwrap.h>
 #include "private/android_filesystem_config.h"
 #include "cutils/log.h"
+#include <cutils/klog.h>
 
 #define ARRAY_SIZE(x)   (sizeof(x) / sizeof(*(x)))
+#define MIN(a,b) (((a)<(b))?(a):(b))
 
 static pthread_mutex_t fd_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
 
@@ -48,8 +50,247 @@
     _exit(-1);                                                                \
 } while(0)
 
-static int parent(const char *tag, int parent_read, pid_t pid, int *chld_sts,
-        bool logwrap) {
+#define MAX_KLOG_TAG 16
+
+/* This is a simple buffer that holds up to the first beginning_buf->buf_size
+ * bytes of output from a command.
+ */
+#define BEGINNING_BUF_SIZE 0x1000
+struct beginning_buf {
+    char *buf;
+    size_t alloc_len;
+    /* buf_size is the usable space, which is one less than the allocated size */
+    size_t buf_size;
+    size_t used_len;
+};
+
+/* This is a circular buf that holds up to the last ending_buf->buf_size bytes
+ * of output from a command after the first beginning_buf->buf_size bytes
+ * (which are held in beginning_buf above).
+ */
+#define ENDING_BUF_SIZE 0x1000
+struct ending_buf {
+    char *buf;
+    ssize_t alloc_len;
+    /* buf_size is the usable space, which is one less than the allocated size */
+    ssize_t buf_size;
+    ssize_t used_len;
+    /* read and write offsets into the circular buffer */
+    int read;
+    int write;
+};
+
+ /* A structure to hold all the abbreviated buf data */
+struct abbr_buf {
+    struct beginning_buf b_buf;
+    struct ending_buf e_buf;
+    int beginning_buf_full;
+};
+
+/* Collect all the various bits of info needed for logging in one place. */
+struct log_info {
+    int log_target;
+    char klog_fmt[MAX_KLOG_TAG * 2];
+    char *btag;
+    bool abbreviated;
+    struct abbr_buf a_buf;
+};
+
+/* Forware declaration */
+static void add_line_to_abbr_buf(struct abbr_buf *a_buf, char *linebuf, int linelen);
+
+/* Return 0 on success, and 1 when full */
+static int add_line_to_linear_buf(struct beginning_buf *b_buf,
+                                   char *line, ssize_t line_len)
+{
+    size_t new_len;
+    char *new_buf;
+    int full = 0;
+
+    if ((line_len + b_buf->used_len) > b_buf->buf_size) {
+        full = 1;
+    } else {
+        /* Add to the end of the buf */
+        memcpy(b_buf->buf + b_buf->used_len, line, line_len);
+        b_buf->used_len += line_len;
+    }
+
+    return full;
+}
+
+static void add_line_to_circular_buf(struct ending_buf *e_buf,
+                                     char *line, ssize_t line_len)
+{
+    ssize_t free_len;
+    ssize_t needed_space;
+    char *new_buf;
+    int cnt;
+
+    if (e_buf->buf == NULL) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+   if (line_len > e_buf->buf_size) {
+       return;
+   }
+
+    free_len = e_buf->buf_size - e_buf->used_len;
+
+    if (line_len > free_len) {
+        /* remove oldest entries at read, and move read to make
+         * room for the new string */
+        needed_space = line_len - free_len;
+        e_buf->read = (e_buf->read + needed_space) % e_buf->buf_size;
+        e_buf->used_len -= needed_space;
+    }
+
+    /* Copy the line into the circular buffer, dealing with possible
+     * wraparound.
+     */
+    cnt = MIN(line_len, e_buf->buf_size - e_buf->write);
+    memcpy(e_buf->buf + e_buf->write, line, cnt);
+    if (cnt < line_len) {
+        memcpy(e_buf->buf, line + cnt, line_len - cnt);
+    }
+    e_buf->used_len += line_len;
+    e_buf->write = (e_buf->write + line_len) % e_buf->buf_size;
+}
+
+/* Log directly to the specified log */
+static void do_log_line(struct log_info *log_info, char *line) {
+    if (log_info->log_target == LOG_KLOG) {
+        klog_write(6, log_info->klog_fmt, line);
+    } else if (log_info->log_target == LOG_ALOG) {
+        ALOG(LOG_INFO, log_info->btag, "%s", line);
+    }
+}
+
+/* Log to either the abbreviated buf, or directly to the specified log
+ * via do_log_line() above.
+ */
+static void log_line(struct log_info *log_info, char *line, int len) {
+    if (log_info->abbreviated) {
+        add_line_to_abbr_buf(&log_info->a_buf, line, len);
+    } else {
+        do_log_line(log_info, line);
+    }
+}
+
+/*
+ * The kernel will take a maximum of 1024 bytes in any single write to
+ * the kernel logging device file, so find and print each line one at
+ * a time.  The allocated size for buf should be at least 1 byte larger
+ * than buf_size (the usable size of the buffer) to make sure there is
+ * room to temporarily stuff a null byte to terminate a line for logging.
+ */
+static void print_buf_lines(struct log_info *log_info, char *buf, int buf_size)
+{
+    char *line_start;
+    char c;
+    int line_len;
+    int i;
+
+    line_start = buf;
+    for (i = 0; i < buf_size; i++) {
+        if (*(buf + i) == '\n') {
+            /* Found a line ending, print the line and compute new line_start */
+            /* Save the next char and replace with \0 */
+            c = *(buf + i + 1);
+            *(buf + i + 1) = '\0';
+            do_log_line(log_info, line_start);
+            /* Restore the saved char */
+            *(buf + i + 1) = c;
+            line_start = buf + i + 1;
+        } else if (*(buf + i) == '\0') {
+            /* The end of the buffer, print the last bit */
+            do_log_line(log_info, line_start);
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    /* If the buffer was completely full, and didn't end with a newline, just
+     * ignore the partial last line.
+     */
+}
+
+static void init_abbr_buf(struct abbr_buf *a_buf) {
+    char *new_buf;
+
+    memset(a_buf, 0, sizeof(struct abbr_buf));
+    new_buf = malloc(BEGINNING_BUF_SIZE);
+    if (new_buf) {
+        a_buf->b_buf.buf = new_buf;
+        a_buf->b_buf.alloc_len = BEGINNING_BUF_SIZE;
+        a_buf->b_buf.buf_size = BEGINNING_BUF_SIZE - 1;
+    }
+    new_buf = malloc(ENDING_BUF_SIZE);
+    if (new_buf) {
+        a_buf->e_buf.buf = new_buf;
+        a_buf->e_buf.alloc_len = ENDING_BUF_SIZE;
+        a_buf->e_buf.buf_size = ENDING_BUF_SIZE - 1;
+    }
+}
+
+static void free_abbr_buf(struct abbr_buf *a_buf) {
+    free(a_buf->b_buf.buf);
+    free(a_buf->e_buf.buf);
+}
+
+static void add_line_to_abbr_buf(struct abbr_buf *a_buf, char *linebuf, int linelen) {
+    if (!a_buf->beginning_buf_full) {
+        a_buf->beginning_buf_full =
+            add_line_to_linear_buf(&a_buf->b_buf, linebuf, linelen);
+    }
+    if (a_buf->beginning_buf_full) {
+        add_line_to_circular_buf(&a_buf->e_buf, linebuf, linelen);
+    }
+}
+
+static void print_abbr_buf(struct log_info *log_info) {
+    struct abbr_buf *a_buf = &log_info->a_buf;
+
+    /* Add the abbreviated output to the kernel log */
+    if (a_buf->b_buf.alloc_len) {
+        print_buf_lines(log_info, a_buf->b_buf.buf, a_buf->b_buf.used_len);
+    }
+
+    /* Print an ellipsis to indicate that the buffer has wrapped or
+     * is full, and some data was not logged.
+     */
+    if (a_buf->e_buf.used_len == a_buf->e_buf.buf_size) {
+        do_log_line(log_info, "...\n");
+    }
+
+    if (a_buf->e_buf.used_len == 0) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    /* Simplest way to print the circular buffer is allocate a second buf
+     * of the same size, and memcpy it so it's a simple linear buffer,
+     * and then cal print_buf_lines on it */
+    if (a_buf->e_buf.read < a_buf->e_buf.write) {
+        /* no wrap around, just print it */
+        print_buf_lines(log_info, a_buf->e_buf.buf + a_buf->e_buf.read,
+                        a_buf->e_buf.used_len);
+    } else {
+        /* The circular buffer will always have at least 1 byte unused,
+         * so by allocating alloc_len here we will have at least
+         * 1 byte of space available as required by print_buf_lines().
+         */
+        char * nbuf = malloc(a_buf->e_buf.alloc_len);
+        if (!nbuf) {
+            return;
+        }
+        int first_chunk_len = a_buf->e_buf.buf_size - a_buf->e_buf.read;
+        memcpy(nbuf, a_buf->e_buf.buf + a_buf->e_buf.read, first_chunk_len);
+        /* copy second chunk */
+        memcpy(nbuf + first_chunk_len, a_buf->e_buf.buf, a_buf->e_buf.write);
+        print_buf_lines(log_info, nbuf, first_chunk_len + a_buf->e_buf.write);
+        free(nbuf);
+    }
+}
+
+static int parent(const char *tag, int parent_read, pid_t pid,
+        int *chld_sts, int log_target, bool abbreviated) {
     int status = 0;
     char buffer[4096];
     struct pollfd poll_fds[] = {
@@ -60,13 +301,32 @@
     };
     int rc = 0;
 
+    struct log_info log_info;
+
     int a = 0;  // start index of unprocessed data
     int b = 0;  // end index of unprocessed data
     int sz;
     bool found_child = false;
+    char tmpbuf[256];
 
-    char *btag = basename(tag);
-    if (!btag) btag = (char*) tag;
+    log_info.log_target = log_target;
+    log_info.abbreviated = abbreviated;
+    log_info.btag = basename(tag);
+    if (!log_info.btag) {
+        log_info.btag = (char*) tag;
+    }
+
+    if (abbreviated && (log_target == LOG_NONE)) {
+        abbreviated = 0;
+    }
+    if (abbreviated) {
+        init_abbr_buf(&log_info.a_buf);
+    }
+
+    if (log_target == LOG_KLOG) {
+        snprintf(log_info.klog_fmt, sizeof(log_info.klog_fmt),
+                 "<6>%.*s: %%s", MAX_KLOG_TAG, log_info.btag);
+    }
 
     while (!found_child) {
         if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(poll(poll_fds, ARRAY_SIZE(poll_fds), -1)) < 0) {
@@ -82,11 +342,21 @@
             // Log one line at a time
             for (b = 0; b < sz; b++) {
                 if (buffer[b] == '\r') {
-                    buffer[b] = '\0';
+                    if (abbreviated) {
+                        /* The abbreviated logging code uses newline as
+                         * the line separator.  Lucikly, the pty layer
+                         * helpfully cooks the output of the command
+                         * being run and inserts a CR before NL.  So
+                         * I just change it to NL here when doing
+                         * abbreviated logging.
+                         */
+                        buffer[b] = '\n';
+                    } else {
+                        buffer[b] = '\0';
+                    }
                 } else if (buffer[b] == '\n') {
                     buffer[b] = '\0';
-                    if (logwrap)
-                        ALOG(LOG_INFO, btag, "%s", &buffer[a]);
+                    log_line(&log_info, &buffer[a], b - a);
                     a = b + 1;
                 }
             }
@@ -94,8 +364,7 @@
             if (a == 0 && b == sizeof(buffer) - 1) {
                 // buffer is full, flush
                 buffer[b] = '\0';
-                if (logwrap)
-                    ALOG(LOG_INFO, btag, "%s", &buffer[a]);
+                log_line(&log_info, &buffer[a], b - a);
                 b = 0;
             } else if (a != b) {
                 // Keep left-overs
@@ -132,32 +401,44 @@
         rc = -ECHILD;
     }
 
-    if (logwrap) {
-      // Flush remaining data
-      if (a != b) {
-        buffer[b] = '\0';
-        ALOG(LOG_INFO, btag, "%s", &buffer[a]);
+    // Flush remaining data
+    if (a != b) {
+      buffer[b] = '\0';
+      log_line(&log_info, &buffer[a], b - a);
+    }
+
+    /* All the output has been processed, time to dump the abbreviated output */
+    if (abbreviated) {
+        print_abbr_buf(&log_info);
+    }
+
+    if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
+      if (WEXITSTATUS(status)) {
+        snprintf(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf),
+                 "%s terminated by exit(%d)\n", log_info.btag, WEXITSTATUS(status));
+        do_log_line(&log_info, tmpbuf);
       }
-      if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
-        if (WEXITSTATUS(status))
-          ALOG(LOG_INFO, "logwrapper", "%s terminated by exit(%d)", btag,
-               WEXITSTATUS(status));
-      } else {
-        if (WIFSIGNALED(status))
-          ALOG(LOG_INFO, "logwrapper", "%s terminated by signal %d", btag,
-               WTERMSIG(status));
-        else if (WIFSTOPPED(status))
-          ALOG(LOG_INFO, "logwrapper", "%s stopped by signal %d", btag,
-               WSTOPSIG(status));
+    } else {
+      if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
+        snprintf(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf),
+                       "%s terminated by signal %d\n", log_info.btag, WTERMSIG(status));
+        do_log_line(&log_info, tmpbuf);
+      } else if (WIFSTOPPED(status)) {
+        snprintf(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf),
+                       "%s stopped by signal %d\n", log_info.btag, WSTOPSIG(status));
+        do_log_line(&log_info, tmpbuf);
       }
     }
 
 err_waitpid:
 err_poll:
+    if (abbreviated) {
+        free_abbr_buf(&log_info.a_buf);
+    }
     return rc;
 }
 
-static void child(int argc, char* argv[], bool logwrap) {
+static void child(int argc, char* argv[]) {
     // create null terminated argv_child array
     char* argv_child[argc + 1];
     memcpy(argv_child, argv, argc * sizeof(char *));
@@ -169,8 +450,8 @@
     }
 }
 
-int android_fork_execvp(int argc, char* argv[], int *status, bool ignore_int_quit,
-        bool logwrap) {
+int android_fork_execvp_ext(int argc, char* argv[], int *status, bool ignore_int_quit,
+        int log_target, bool abbreviated) {
     pid_t pid;
     int parent_ptty;
     int child_ptty;
@@ -230,7 +511,7 @@
         dup2(child_ptty, 2);
         close(child_ptty);
 
-        child(argc, argv, logwrap);
+        child(argc, argv);
     } else {
         close(child_ptty);
         if (ignore_int_quit) {
@@ -242,7 +523,7 @@
             sigaction(SIGQUIT, &ignact, &quitact);
         }
 
-        rc = parent(argv[0], parent_ptty, pid, status, logwrap);
+        rc = parent(argv[0], parent_ptty, pid, status, log_target, abbreviated);
     }
 
     if (ignore_int_quit) {
diff --git a/logwrapper/logwrapper.c b/logwrapper/logwrapper.c
index ed71a29..d1c6240 100644
--- a/logwrapper/logwrapper.c
+++ b/logwrapper/logwrapper.c
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 
 #include <logwrap/logwrap.h>
+#include <cutils/klog.h>
 
 #include "cutils/log.h"
 
@@ -30,36 +32,55 @@
 
 void usage() {
     fatal(
-        "Usage: logwrapper [-d] BINARY [ARGS ...]\n"
+        "Usage: logwrapper [-a] [-d] [-k] BINARY [ARGS ...]\n"
         "\n"
         "Forks and executes BINARY ARGS, redirecting stdout and stderr to\n"
         "the Android logging system. Tag is set to BINARY, priority is\n"
         "always LOG_INFO.\n"
         "\n"
+        "-a: Causes logwrapper to do abbreviated logging.\n"
+        "    This logs up to the first 4K and last 4K of the command\n"
+        "    being run, and logs the output when the command exits\n"
         "-d: Causes logwrapper to SIGSEGV when BINARY terminates\n"
-        "    fault address is set to the status of wait()\n");
+        "    fault address is set to the status of wait()\n"
+        "-k: Causes logwrapper to log to the kernel log instead of\n"
+        "    the Android system log\n");
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
     int seg_fault_on_exit = 0;
+    int log_target = LOG_ALOG;
+    bool abbreviated = false;
+    int ch;
     int status = 0xAAAA;
     int rc;
 
-    if (argc < 2) {
+    while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "adk")) != -1) {
+        switch (ch) {
+            case 'a':
+                abbreviated = true;
+                break;
+            case 'd':
+                seg_fault_on_exit = 1;
+                break;
+            case 'k':
+                log_target = LOG_KLOG;
+                klog_set_level(6);
+                break;
+            case '?':
+            default:
+              usage();
+        }
+    }
+    argc -= optind;
+    argv += optind;
+
+    if (argc < 1) {
         usage();
     }
 
-    if (strncmp(argv[1], "-d", 2) == 0) {
-        seg_fault_on_exit = 1;
-        argc--;
-        argv++;
-    }
-
-    if (argc < 2) {
-        usage();
-    }
-
-    rc = android_fork_execvp(argc - 1, &argv[1], &status, true, true);
+    rc = android_fork_execvp_ext(argc, &argv[0], &status, true,
+                                 log_target, abbreviated);
     if (!rc) {
         if (WIFEXITED(status))
             rc = WEXITSTATUS(status);