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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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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