From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 23:13:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427FC1065673 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:13:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swell.k@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F758FC14 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so3337965qwj.13 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:13:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=hPC8yBniJH7vO65a3RQoIk+Y0YuBmdM/kUtmFwkeGCM=; b=OiF0QQiGEoHWnHVRcaSvIdKj4VG4OVtUPYa7CzcWVOKwytxklZI2KV2z53bpXwLHGM 9SHmFqwi/iMKQRS7Y225x/jHeJsLSRJPsUySHGe0PIjWq+BHK2kANRDbyi4YiuaFm6q3 6eEJxwvAuI5RWMEkCbhgKf2kkvDl9tenmbmS4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=Ic0sMGV3B62frOq3eJ7nSvoenHdN6mRmwkQpmZYoS77dfqwJIeKb5C262JsntirTtL lDtgAjP7ylnqh2SMb4fDErF3ayJNcJ75VlWzWWoLmr0l5W49S1Wje7sWZxN7LMW9mi4U Fq/LaWkl+Yg0dDYFv8lwI1tOUz10pRfbwh2Xs= Received: by 10.224.47.149 with SMTP id n21mr3430523qaf.188.1295824419279; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([199.48.147.45]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t7sm8740919qcs.16.2011.01.23.15.13.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:13:38 -0800 (PST) From: Anonymous To: David Demelier References: <4D3CB2FE.2080603@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:13:31 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4D3CB2FE.2080603@gmail.com> (David Demelier's message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:14 +0100") Message-ID: <86ipxfqkmc.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why panic(9) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:13:40 -0000 David Demelier writes: > In any case, when panic occurs, switching display to the tty can be > great. Why not a sysctl like kern.tty_on_panic? Because when you're > running X and a panic occurs not everybody understand what happens. IIRC, it requires KMS support.