Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 15:15:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de, phk@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/794 Message-ID: <199605091315.PAA14538@ida.interface-business.de> In-Reply-To: <4844.831647412@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 9, 96 01:10:12 pm"
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I think the computation of the offset must be done at system init > > time. If my memory serves well, savecore(8) picks the contents of a > > kernel variable at run-time to determine the starting block of the > > dump in the dump area. > > yes, so why not simply change the default from 0 to 8k and teach savecore > to look both places ? Thinking more about it... it's been wrong that it was even starting to dump at offset 0. It should compute the required space backwards from the end of the dump area. Now i wonder why it started at 0... (the swap partition was large enough). I think _that's_ the real bug. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j
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