Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:08:06 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: dt71@gmx.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automated submission of kernel panic reports Message-ID: <5275F656.2090804@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5275A3AD.2020501@gmx.com> References: <526F8EB3.1040205@freebsd.org> <5271A465.2030206@gmx.com> <5275888E.6010806@freebsd.org> <52758BCD.1000307@gmx.com> <52758C1F.9080601@freebsd.org> <5275A3AD.2020501@gmx.com>
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On 11/02/13 18:15, dt71@gmx.com wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote, On 11/03/2013 00:34:
>> Let me know if you see anything I missed.
>
> Patch 1: mostly bikeshed stuff.
> Patch 2: double quote stuff.
Thanks.
> I didn't know anything about dump number rotation. How does that work? By
> default, upon the 11th dump, the bounds file will contain ``0'', but the last
> dump will be stored at /var/crash/{info,vmcore}.9 ? Because in that case, the
> ``bounds - 1'' method won't work.
Aside from a 3 minute window on HEAD, the versions of savecore which can rotate
back to using /var/crash/*.0 also create .last symlinks. So I'm not worried
about that; if we don't have a .last symlink to rely on, bounds - 1 is good
enough.
--
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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