From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 18:47:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD30C1065675; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:47:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [80.68.94.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98428FC21; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:554c:4349:6781:9fa4] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:554c:4349:6781:9fa4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA90D3017C; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47C5A890.6070401@cran.org.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:14:40 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Khitrov References: <724581.33334.qm@web30807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <47C5571C.5090207@FreeBSD.org> <39DC135F7F0571489196E0B6F5D58B4A05DDB404@MWBEXCH.mweb.com> <47C56C52.2090804@FreeBSD.org> <26ddd1750802270827x21eab37du3443b7a25c6ab6eb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750802270827x21eab37du3443b7a25c6ab6eb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kris@freebsd.org, Freebsd questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:47:04 -0000 Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote: >> > I did some digging and found it on the main ftp server: >> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/ >> > >> > Rudi >> >> People always try to get the jump on the official release announcement, >> but don't consider that until the email arrives in your mailbox saying >> it is released then the ISO images etc are subject to last minute change >> without notice. Use at your own risk :) >> >> Kris >> > > Just curious - is there a reason why the generic kernel is still being > built with debug symbols? I thought that was only used during the > pre-release phase. > WITNESS and INVARIANTS are enabled before the pre-release phase (i.e before -BETA) - as far as I know debug symbols are always generated by default, and are dumped into /boot/kernel as separate files. They don't hurt performance (unlike witness and invariants) and are useful in a few situations, one of which is if you ever get a panic. -- Bruce