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To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: 10 Sep 2001 14:58:36 +0200
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Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On Thursday, 23 August 2001 at 17:56:28 -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Ah, no.  The intent is not to restart from all panics.  This lets
> > you, the developer, decide at panic time if one wants to try and
> > restart or not.  If you do, you clear panicstr, otherwise it panics
> > normally.
> Do you return from the debugger to panic?  I never do.

I believe the documented procedure for obtaining a dump after a panic
has dropped you into the debugger is to 'continue'.  That's what I do
most of the time, anyway, and I think that changing the behaviour of
the 'continue' command will seriously surprise and aggravate a lot of
people.

DES
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