From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 18 7:37:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E6D14C25 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 725091C19; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:37:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D163823; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:37:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:37:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: devtoname In-Reply-To: <2143.934984275@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > As a result of a discussion between myself, Bruce Evans, and Poul-Henning > > Kemp, there now exists a kernel function: > > > > char *devtoname (dev_t dev) > > Cool. This can be used to sort out the obscure message you get when you > attempt a kernel dump to a bad partition. :-) The obscure message is really obscure because if you had a debugger you wouldn't need the old message, and if you don't have a debugger the old message is useless. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message