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Date:      Mon, 04 Mar 1996 19:09:30 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
To:        J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        gpalmer@freefall.freebsd.org (Gary Palmer), CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/kern subr_prf.c 
Message-ID:  <199603041109.TAA02681@jhome.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Mar 1996 16:29:12 %2B0100." <199603021529.QAA01202@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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>As Gary Palmer wrote:
>
>>   Modified:    sys/i386/conf  LINT
>>                sys/kern  subr_prf.c
>>   Log:
>>   Add a new option: DDB_UNATTENDED. Stops machine dropping into DDB
>>   when it panics, but leaving activation of DDB from the console
>>   unaffected.
>
>I would have loved to see a sysctl variable for this instead.  This
>way, i don't need a dozen of different kernels, but could for example
>disable DDB fallbacks before leaving for a vacation or longer business
>trip.
>
>-- 
>cheers, J"org

I agree.. It is amazingly simple to add sysctl variables after PHK's upgrade
of the sysctl code.  It's now as simple as adding two (or three) lines to the
code..  One #include, an int variable and a SYSCTL_INT(.. OID_AUTO..) line.

Cheers,
-Peter



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