From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 16 0: 5:53 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF2537B41C; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3G75YYu065356; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:05:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Kargl Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:58:50 PDT." <20020415235849.A4416@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:05:34 +0200 Message-ID: <65355.1018940734@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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