Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:39:01 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys kerneldump.h Message-ID: <5634.1017668341@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Apr 2002 15:25:38 %2B0200." <xzp7knrczzh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzp7knrczzh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> This design is my best effort and it is quite likely that people more used >> to kernel dumps may want to change this subsequently so two levels of >> version numbers are provided: one for the common header and one per >> architecture. > >Did we not agree to use a text format? You suggested that. I had to do the implementation and decided that a binary format made more sense from various practical points of view. Savecore dumps the header in ascii in the .info file, and I find it unlikely that people will do things like "grep dump /dev/ad0s1b" so I decided that a binary format was OK for on-disk use. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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