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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Subject: Re: kern/4630: buffer_map might become corrupted 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 17:38:22 +0800."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:30:18 -0700
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>However, the other problem is that most of the crashes that I see these 
>days usually prevent a crashdump from happening in the first place, 
>leaving the savecore nothing to work with.  cda couldn't do anything in 
>for most of the crashes I see on 2.2.

   The dump code should always work unless memory has been horribly
corrupted...we should fix it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project