Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 10:05:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: /usr/src/sys/scripts? Message-ID: <20011020100507.Z60412@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011019084241.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:42:41AM -0700 References: <20011019101946.E60412@wantadilla.lemis.com> <XFMail.011019084241.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Friday, 19 October 2001 at 8:42:41 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 19-Oct-01 Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 19 October 2001 at 1:04:12 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >>> Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> writes: >>>> Most folks will probably not analyze the crashdumps, or they will copy >>>> them off somewhere else so they can free up /var/crash for the next >>>> crashdump, so I'd say stick .gdbinit somewhere else. >>> >>> /usr/src/share/misc or /usr/src/sys/conf might be good choices then. >>> /usr/src/sys/scripts sounds like a good idea, I don't like the idea of >>> creating a new directory just for one teeny little file. >> >> No, there are a number of files in there, and I expect more to >> arrive. I'm prepared to discuss the point, though. /sys/scripts has >> the advantage that it's compatible with BSD/OS, which I don't suppose >> we have to over-emphasize. > > One thing I would suggest is to create several .gdbinit.foo files for different > functionality so that one can create a custom .gdbinit simply by including the > desired set of .gdbinit.foo files. Thus making it easier for people who > already have a hacked .gdbinit to use these new functions as well. Yes, that's my plan. > Note that some of the functions may very well end up being very MD > (such as the manual stack traces of other pids by examining the > stack, etc.) so we might want to think about a way of handling MD > scripts vs. MI scripts. I'm open to suggestions. One might really be to put the MD stuff in the <arch>/conf file, as DES suggested. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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