From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 10 19:27:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.trit.org (bazooka.trit.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFF437B405 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:27:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by bazooka.trit.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 654EF3E31; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 03:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bazooka (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bazooka.trit.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559263C12E for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 03:27:24 +0000 (UTC) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: dumpon(8) obsolete Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 03:27:19 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20020311032724.654EF3E31@bazooka.trit.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Since sysctl(8) grew support for setting dev_t's, dumpon(8) can be reduced to: sysctl kern.dumpdev=$argument Since dumpon(8) is not a standard interface and only appears to be used in /etc/rc, I'd like to change the latter to use sysctl(8) directly and remove dumpon(8) from the tree. The only issue I can see is that there is a lot of relevant information in the dumpon(8) manual page, but most of it is probably more appropriate for the Handbook or crash(8), anyway. If nobody objects, I'd like to move the relevant stuff out of the dumpon(8) manual and proceed to remove the program itself as described above. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message