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Date:      Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:20:39 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot
Message-ID:  <20050614082039.GA2038@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050613192308.GA87640@sandvine.com>
References:  <20050613192308.GA87640@sandvine.com>

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:23:08PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> I notice that as of sbin/savecore/savecore.c 1.72 and in 5.4-RELEASE
> savecore increments the number in /var/crash/bounds on each boot,
> regardless of whether it rebooted due to panic or was a clean shutdown.
> Is this the desired behaviour or an unintentional side effect?

It is an unintentional side affect.  If I wasn't constantly experiencing
kernel landminds every time I sit down to do major FreeBSD, I would have
gotten to this issue.

-- 
-- David  (who's spending his 4th hour tracking down new panics)



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