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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:00:03 +0100
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
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From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Subject: Re: kern/4630: buffer_map might become corrupted
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Hi,

At 10:44 am +0100 29/9/97, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> BTW2; I wish there was an easy way of producing a stack trace automatically
>> on a panic or fatal trap, or as a diagnostic tool.  Having a machine panic
>
>Me too - I could use this to very good effect in usermode,
>e.g. sysinstall. ;)

ISTR a Dr Dobbs article several years back where some guy was doing
precisely that (stack backtrace etc off assorted signals). I'll have a dig
in the attic if anyone's interested.


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