Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:51:16 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/ddb db_command.c db_command.h db_lex.c db_lex.h db_main.c db_script.c ddb.h Message-ID: <4772E8F4.3080908@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org> References: <200712260933.lBQ9XJi7039100@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071226181850.GA6300@green.homeunix.org> <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > >> Wow, very cool debugging feature! Any more sweet DDB features in the >> pipeline? > > Thanks! DDB capture output, scripting, and textdumps were pretty much > what I had in the queue for DDB at this point. I'll see if I can't come > up with some stuff, and look forward to hearing about how people use > these ones. I'll also happily accept bug reports... > > Textdumps should open up the door for some interesting things in terms > of bug management--I'd love to see someone put together some > rc.d/rc.conf parts to do automated crash report submission (disabled by > default, of course) and a database to hold the results. I suspect a > moderate number of panic reports are lost on the basis that filing a > proper bug report is fairly difficult (get out kgdb, etc), or that the > boxes quietly reboot and the core dumps rot on disk (to be deleted when > space runs out). Perhaps hoovering up those textdumps, especially if we > can correlate them with one another using some automated processing, > might be quite informative. Or just a good time sink :-). scripting is made almost infinitly more useful with some registers/variables.. (especially if there is some simple looping.. allowing following of a linked list or similar.) > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge
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