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

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:08:54 -0700
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:49:44PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, 01:20-0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:23:08PM -0400, 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?
> >
> > It is an unintentional side affect.  If I wasn't constantly experiencing
> > kernel landminds every time I sit down to do major FreeBSD, I would have
> > gotten to this issue.
> 
> I am going to ask re_at_ for permission to commit the fix if nobody beats
> me.

Are you sure its correct?  Have you tested it with say bounds != 0 and a
few core dumps in /var/crash?
 
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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Tue Jun 14 2005 - 17:08:55 UTC

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