Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:49:44 +0400 (MSD) From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca> Subject: Re: savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot Message-ID: <20050614224704.Y75797@mp2.macomnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20050614082039.GA2038@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050613192308.GA87640@sandvine.com> <20050614082039.GA2038@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, 01:20-0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. I am going to ask re@ for permission to commit the fix if nobody beats me. -- Maxim Konovalov
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