From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 12 15: 3:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA50237B43B; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 3FCD25347; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:02:34 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Nik Clayton Cc: arch@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org, jake@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dumpsys() rewrite References: <20020312224707.I56358@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Mar 2002 00:02:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020312224707.I56358@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton 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