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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:05:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernels, panics & the debugger
Message-ID:  <199506051405.HAA23295@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506051321.IAA06743@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jun 5, 95 08:21:04 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.

A ``mentioned'' only gets you so far, it means one of us has to take
your ``idea'' and go spend the hour or so to implement it.  A well
documented, minimized change context diff will get your ideas a lot
farther than just a request for them :-)


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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