From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 04:47:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F31F16A41A; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AD513C457; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id C16F31A4D7C; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:45:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:45:14 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20071227044514.GL16982@elvis.mu.org> References: <200712260933.lBQ9XJi7039100@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071226181850.GA6300@green.homeunix.org> <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , 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 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:47:06 -0000 * Robert Watson [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