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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:01:58 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/5.0R todo.sgml
Message-ID:  <20021121220158.GV16066@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021121194507.GA55329@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <200211190032.gAJ0WoNq032778@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021119005344.GE16066@elvis.mu.org> <20021119130340.A66949@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20021119024120.GA1917@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021119152312.A70748@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20021121194507.GA55329@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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* Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> [021121 11:45] wrote:
> 
> OTOH, having a copy of kernel.debug means that people can trivially
> provide backtraces that are actually useful for fault-finding.  I'm
> sure that there's previous discussion that suggested that it would be
> useful to include kernel.debug on CDs.  Maybe it should be moved out
> of the 'base' set of files to help people FTPing across slow links.

As long as it's available it should be ok for them to download it at
a later date.  In fact it'd be nice if someone scripted some tool
that would automagically download the kernel.debug and spit out a
backtrace from the dump if available.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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