From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 2 14:22:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29236 for current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:22:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA29229 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:22:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA12749; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:22:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA25397; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:10:29 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970403001029.KU32814@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 00:10:29 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (Gary Jennejohn) Subject: Re: writing to kernel global variables with gdb References: <199704012055.PAA27208@life.eecs.umich.edu> <199704022236.WAA01626@peedub.gj.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704022236.WAA01626@peedub.gj.org>; from Gary Jennejohn on Apr 2, 1997 22:36:08 +0000 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Perhaps it would be better to use "-wk" for "writable kernel" (that's > sort of mnemonic) in place of "-w". Any opinions ? Whatever you decide, document it in the kerneldebug.sgml file of the handbook. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)