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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 1995 08:21:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernels, panics & the debugger
Message-ID:  <199506051321.IAA06743@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506051229.FAA24756@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 5, 95 05:29:51 am

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> Can I suggest yet another flag to be put in the kernel? It seems to
> me that you could want a situation where you want to be able to get
> into the debugger (for machine lock-ups), but you want the machine to
> panic cleanly when you aren't there and leave a core dump instead.
> 
> My proposal: a flag which allows <CTRL>-<ALT>-<ESC> to still drop you
>              into the debugger, but which doesn't call the debugger
>              for kernel panic's.
> 
> Comments?

A kernel variable or something like this would be great; I would really like
to run the debugger on all my systems, but cannot risk it on machines that
must be up 24/7.

I mentioned this some time ago, but nobody seemed too interested.

... Joe

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