From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 26 23:51:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68316A421 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outZ.internet-mail-service.net (outZ.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DA613C455 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:51:09 -0800 Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E2E126D82; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:51:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4772E8F4.3080908@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:51:16 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <200712260933.lBQ9XJi7039100@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071226181850.GA6300@green.homeunix.org> <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20071226233301.K59006@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:51:10 -0000 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