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To: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
Subject: Re: Debugger vs panic 
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:34:46 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006281116580.15565-100000@localhost> Nick Hibma writes:
: > I guess I want a "debugging expert" flag that says that I'll fix
: > anything that causes a kernel printf and to please just print and fail 
: > exit rather than do a full panic for silly things.
: 
: There is a number of places where you can't do this in any case. You
: can't solve all those fat-finger panics.

Yes, but you can solve a whole lot of them.  The resource already in
use one is the one that kept biting me.  For that, you just return a
failure.

Warner


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