From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 24 13:52:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA23121 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23105 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id VAA03753 ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:09:53 +0100 (BST) To: Sujal Patel cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: request for a new "feature" as regards DDB In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 18:02:56 EDT." Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:09:53 +0100 Message-ID: <3751.830376593@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sujal Patel wrote in message ID : > While we're talking about DDB, can't we have it timeout in 30s if you > don't hit a key (and then generate a core dump). Not really ... that would assume that the IRQ handlers were still operational, which may not be the case. DDB should only be running if all interrupts are disabled if I remember right (and if I don't, I won't mind being corrected :-) ) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.