From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Aug 23 14:31:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50B3E37B40A for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 6193 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Aug 2001 21:29:24 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:29:24 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Dima Dorfman Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/29931: problems with kern.corefile handling Message-ID: <20010824002924.C1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Dima Dorfman , freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org References: <20010822123301.D8694@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010823212123.AB3F83E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010823212123.AB3F83E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Peter Pentchev writes: > > This looks genuine. Any objections to committing it, and MFC'ing before > > 4.4 comes out? > > I don't see any reason to rush the MFC. Mmmm.. preventing foot-shooting? A panicked kernel is a bit too harsh a punishment for a misconfigured kern.corefile, IMHO.. Granted, this level of misconfiguration is not easy to attain ;) But it could always happen as a result of a cut-and-paste-o and corefiles kept in a central directory or something.. G'luck, Peter -- I am jealous of the first word in this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message