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Date:      Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:08:54 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca>
Subject:   Re: savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot
Message-ID:  <20050614190854.GA12928@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050614224704.Y75797@mp2.macomnet.net>
References:  <20050613192308.GA87640@sandvine.com> <20050614082039.GA2038@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050614224704.Y75797@mp2.macomnet.net>

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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:49:44PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure its correct?  Have you tested it with say bounds != 0 and a
few core dumps in /var/crash?
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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