From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 10:06:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D69C1065673 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A27A8FC1B for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.51]) by QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id hN5N1a00R16LCl054N61Wz; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:02 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id hN601a00A2P6wsM3SN61zG; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:01 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=NTqVaNuko5sA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=RN_Y_efyUq0J-Pz98lUA:9 a=nerD5Tmr-U0gCS-Ae8eLVvtEzCsA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 63C4233C1C; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:06:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:06:00 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20081120100600.GB22639@icarus.home.lan> References: <20081028081154.GQ6808@hoeg.nl> <20081118213410.GA81783@hoeg.nl> <20081118214919.GM83287@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <7d6fde3d0811190202p4f6d8941h3932b70b8fe1a93a@mail.gmail.com> <20081119104731.GA83366@icarus.home.lan> <20081120063936.GU51761@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20081120070820.GA19307@icarus.home.lan> <86r656oha4.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <86r656oha4.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:03 -0000 On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick writes: > > Peter Jeremy writes: > > > This is deliberate. If the system panics, stuff that was in the > > > message buffer (and might not be on disk) can be read when the > > > system reboots. If there is no crashdump, this might be the only > > > record of what happened. > > That doesn't sound deliberate at all -- it sounds like a quirk that > > people (you?) are relying on. > > No, it is deliberate. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean we're > morons. I said nothing about liking/disliking it, nor did I namecall or condescend. Thanks for being a complete prick, des. Jesus christ... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |