Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:23:56 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha support.s src/sys/i386/i386 swtch.s src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c src/sys/sys systm.h Message-ID: <8219.1074623036@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:36:17 EST." <200401201234.45472.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <200401201234.45472.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: >On Monday 19 January 2004 04:27 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> phk 2004/01/19 13:27:11 PST >> >> FreeBSD src repository >> >> Modified files: >> sys/alpha/alpha support.s >> sys/i386/i386 swtch.s >> sys/kern kern_shutdown.c >> sys/sys systm.h >> Log: >> Add linenumber and source filename to panic(9) output. >> >> Ideally a traceback should be printed too, any takers ? > >We already print a traceback if DDB is in the kernel. The traceback doesn't make it into the msgbuffer, and therefore many bug reports give no details. >We already print a traceback if DDB is in the kernel. Given that panic >messages are already largely unique and greppable, I think this doesn't >really buy us all that much. It saves the PR-washing team a lot of grepping. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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