From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Aug 23 14:46:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C9337B40B; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 068E93E31; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:46:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE45E3C12D; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:46:08 -0700 (PDT) To: Peter Pentchev Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/29931: problems with kern.corefile handling In-Reply-To: <20010824002924.C1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:29:24 +0300" Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:46:03 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010823214608.068E93E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org> 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 Peter Pentchev writes: > 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.. I didn't say it shouldn't be MFC'd at all, just that I think it shouldn't be MFC'd this late into a code freeze since it's hardly critical. Anyway, that's for jkh and murray to decide. There's nothing wrong with the patch that I can see. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message