From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 22:03:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641B716A46D for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:03:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (trang.nuxi.org [74.95.12.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458D513C4D1 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:03:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l7VM3ILV007825; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l7VM3IXb007824; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:03:18 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20070831220318.GA4861@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, John Baldwin , Jeff Roberson , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org References: <20070815233852.X568@10.0.0.1> <200708161056.31494.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070816131327.J568@10.0.0.1> <200708161635.20935.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200708161635.20935.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file locking. X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:03:34 -0000 On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 04:35:20PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2007 04:18:51 pm Jeff Roberson wrote: > > Do we have an official stance on libkvm? Now that we have sysctl for > > run-time it's only useful for crashdump debugging. Really in most cases > > it could be replaced with a reasonable set of gcc scripts. > > s/gcc/gdb/. At work we do mostly post-mortem analysis, so having working > libkvm is still very important for us. xref the way I just fixed netstat to > work again on coredumps recently. Breaking fstat on coredumps would probably > be very annoying. This applies at Juniper as well. I think post-mortem analysis is a Big Deal(tm) to those developing commercial products based on FreeBSD. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)