Re: savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_phaedrus.sandvine.ca>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:50:52 -0400
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:03:50PM -0700, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Ed Maste wrote:
> 
> > I notice that as of sbin/savecore/savecore.c 1.72 and in 5.4-RELEASE
> > savecore increments the number in /var/crash/bounds on each boot,
> > regardless of whether it rebooted due to panic or was a clean shutdown.
> >
> > Is this the desired behaviour or an unintentional side effect?
> > We've been monitoring the value in bounds to detect panics, which
> > of course doesn't work anymore.
> 
> Its certainly not the historical behavior :-)
> 
> Think you could submit a patch with the fix?

The attached patch does the trick.  In -vv mode the bounds used to
be included with the first/last dump header output -- I just replaced
it with -1.

Problem originally discovered by Adrian Dewhurst.

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Ed Maste, Sandvine Inc.

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