From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 21 14: 2: 5 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FC937B401; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:02:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3DD243E88; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:02:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id B6E30AE2FD; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:01:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:01:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Tim Robbins , Kris Kennaway , Robert Watson , 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> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121194507.GA55329@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Peter Jeremy [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.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message