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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:12:03 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/4630: buffer_map might become corrupted 
Message-ID:  <944.875524323@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 02:05:01 PDT." <199709290905.CAA00880@implode.root.com> 

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In message <199709290905.CAA00880@implode.root.com>, David Greenman writes:
>>BTW2; I wish there was an easy way of producing a stack trace automatically
>>on a panic or fatal trap, or as a diagnostic tool.  Having a machine panic 
>>and reboot is near for unattended machines.  Having a stack trace in the 
>>console log would be fantastic. :-)
>
>   John and I were talking about this exact thing just last night. :-) I
>think the best approach would be to create a 'cda' crash dump analyzer
>that generates a report on reboot (stores the report in a file) that includes
>a traceback, register info, dumps of important data structures and lists, etc.

And optionally emails it to some configurable address.

>The alternative is to try to output a traceback on the console at crash time,
>but this is likely going to scroll other important information off the screen.
Well, if scroll-lock works this is no big loss.

>Anyway, this has been on my wishlist for years.
mine too.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."



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