Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:05:34 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c Message-ID: <65355.1018940734@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:58:50 PDT." <20020415235849.A4416@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20020415235849.A4416@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:03:04AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: >> Marcel's savecore creates 2 files "md5.info" and "md5.core" where >> "md5" is determined from the md5 checksum of the kernel dump header >> struct. > >Actually that was PHK's. > >PHK, what was your motivation in changing the saved core filename? I wanted to avoid having to open the disk device in RW mode, so the best way to find out if we had already saved a dump was to make a hash of the header and look for that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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