From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 07:08:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA02726 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:08:52 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA02718 ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:08:44 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA23295; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:05:46 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506051405.HAA23295@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Kernels, panics & the debugger To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506051321.IAA06743@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jun 5, 95 08:21:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1150 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > Can I suggest yet another flag to be put in the kernel? It seems to > > me that you could want a situation where you want to be able to get > > into the debugger (for machine lock-ups), but you want the machine to > > panic cleanly when you aren't there and leave a core dump instead. > > > > My proposal: a flag which allows -- to still drop you > > into the debugger, but which doesn't call the debugger > > for kernel panic's. > > > > Comments? > > A kernel variable or something like this would be great; I would really like > to run the debugger on all my systems, but cannot risk it on machines that > must be up 24/7. > > I mentioned this some time ago, but nobody seemed too interested. A ``mentioned'' only gets you so far, it means one of us has to take your ``idea'' and go spend the hour or so to implement it. A well documented, minimized change context diff will get your ideas a lot farther than just a request for them :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD