From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 4 17:41:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3F315451 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA08955; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:11:03 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA71379; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:10:49 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:10:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Archie Cobbs Cc: Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic plus advice needed Message-ID: <19990805101049.W62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908040936.TAA13368@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199908041612.JAA98396@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908041612.JAA98396@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:12:43AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 4 August 1999 at 9:12:43 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Bruce Evans writes: >>>>> Any objections to the patch below? >>>> >>>> Yes. It bloats the kernel and only fixed one cause of the problem. >>> >>> What are the others..? >> >> The only one I can find now is naming the debugging kernel with a name >> of different length. This causes different string lengths in config.c >> and vers.c. I once thought I saw a problem related to linker sets, but >> I was probably mistaken. > > So... IMHO, if we can fix this as well, it would be worth it for all > the people who get core dumps but didn't build debug kernels. > Do you disagree? I disagree that this should even be necessary. This kind of detail was exactly the reason why I put the short-lived default debug kernel into config. There aren't too many systems any more that don't have an additional 30 MB for the time it takes to build the kernel, and it solves a whole lot of potential problems. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message