From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 23:48:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA01193 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PACBELL.net (chumash.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA01188 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:48:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.170.0.50] (ppp-206-170-0-50.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.0.50]) by PACBELL.net (8.7.6/8.7.1) with SMTP id XAA23654; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:48:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: leonard@pacbell.net (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:52:25 -0700 To: jehamby@lightside.com From: leonard@pacbell.net (Leonard Chung) Subject: Re: PS broke again -- what has to be rebuilt to stop this? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > By the way, Linux has done this since the beginning (except that >> > everything is in /proc), and therefore a ps from kernel 0.99.x, in spirit >> > at least, will work on the latest 2.0.x kernel. >> >> How do they ps crash dumps images? >You can ps crash dump images??? :-) >Actually for Linux, I think this is irrelevant, because I don't think >Linux can create crash dumps. By default, I don't think it even made CORE >dumps until recently (there must have been a kernel option to configure >this, but it wasn't obvious to me). Sorry if this sounds really dumb, but I've been wondering, what's the difference between a crash dump and a core dump? Leonard