From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 25 02:13:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA05595 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 02:13:44 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA05582 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 02:13:19 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA07697 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 18:40:09 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510250910.SAA07697@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Debugging interrupt service routines... To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 18:40:08 +0930 (CST) Content-Type: text Content-Length: 735 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Can someone give me a definite 'yes' or 'no' to "Is it safe to call printf() in the kernel from an interrupt handler?" I'm getting a lot of GP faults courtesy of syslogd, and I suspect that this is the problem, but I'd like to be sure. (Then there's the nuisance where savecore causes an IO check and another panic. This goes around in circles 8( ) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[