From owner-cvs-all Mon Apr 1 5:39:44 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C4537B417; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 05:39:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g31Dd14F005635; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:39:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys kerneldump.h In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Apr 2002 15:25:38 +0200." Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:39:01 +0200 Message-ID: <5634.1017668341@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp 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