Date: 13 Mar 2002 00:02:33 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org, jake@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dumpsys() rewrite Message-ID: <xzppu29s83a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020312224707.I56358@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <xzp3cz5v7rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020312224707.I56358@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> writes: > 1. Is it worth putting a version field in there somewhere. Sure. This wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list. > 2. Is that the order of the fields above, or can they appear in any > order? Any order, and you can add any fields you want; savecore(1) will ignore those it doesn't understand. > 3. To avoid ambiguity, it might be worth having an explicit "end of > metadata" marker before the dump data. Yep, that's what "END\n" is for, or didn't you catch that? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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