Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 08:21:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernels, panics & the debugger Message-ID: <199506051321.IAA06743@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199506051229.FAA24756@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 5, 95 05:29:51 am
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> Can I suggest yet another flag to be put in the kernel? It seems to > me that you could want a situation where you want to be able to get > into the debugger (for machine lock-ups), but you want the machine to > panic cleanly when you aren't there and leave a core dump instead. > > My proposal: a flag which allows <CTRL>-<ALT>-<ESC> to still drop you > into the debugger, but which doesn't call the debugger > for kernel panic's. > > Comments? A kernel variable or something like this would be great; I would really like to run the debugger on all my systems, but cannot risk it on machines that must be up 24/7. I mentioned this some time ago, but nobody seemed too interested. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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