Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:45:14 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/ddb db_command.c db_command.h db_lex.c db_lex.h db_main.c db_script.c ddb.h Message-ID: <20071227044514.GL16982@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org> References: <200712260933.lBQ9XJi7039100@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071226181850.GA6300@green.homeunix.org> <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org>
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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [071226 15:35] wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > >Wow, very cool debugging feature! Any more sweet DDB features in the > >pipeline? > > Thanks! DDB capture output, scripting, and textdumps were pretty much what > I had in the queue for DDB at this point. I'll see if I can't come up with > some stuff, and look forward to hearing about how people use these ones. > I'll also happily accept bug reports... > > Textdumps should open up the door for some interesting things in terms of > bug management--I'd love to see someone put together some rc.d/rc.conf > parts to do automated crash report submission (disabled by default, of > course) and a database to hold the results. I suspect a moderate number of > panic reports are lost on the basis that filing a proper bug report is > fairly difficult (get out kgdb, etc), or that the boxes quietly reboot and > the core dumps rot on disk (to be deleted when space runs out). Perhaps > hoovering up those textdumps, especially if we can correlate them with one > another using some automated processing, might be quite informative. Or > just a good time sink :-). I would love to see nicer ddb help, like: db> help bt - show thread backtrace x - examine data at address (example formats) ... db> help show more infos... -Alfred
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