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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:35:20 -0500
From:      dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using ddb to debug a double-panic?
Message-ID:  <199603081535.KAA06157@etinc.com>

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>> I've been thinking about improving ddb.  About 4 years ago, I wrote a
>> similar kernel debugger for BSD/386, and was thinking of incorporating
>> some of its features into ddb.  One of the things it could do was
>> exactly this kind of stack trace (well, it supplied other information
>> as well).  I won't get round to doing it until May, though.
>> 
>> Does anybody else have ideas about improving ddb?
>

Perhaps theres already a way to do this...but I have 2 things....


1) Let the machine reboot after a certain amount of time. When 
debugging an infrequent problem, you can't leave the machine
in an unmanned environment (or go to sleep) if you need it to 
come back up after a crash.

2) Allow it to be disabled (can you do this?). #1 could be solved if
you could disable it when you left the site.

dennis
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