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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:05:34 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c 
Message-ID:  <65355.1018940734@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:58:50 PDT." <20020415235849.A4416@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20020415235849.A4416@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:03:04AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> Marcel's savecore creates 2 files "md5.info" and "md5.core" where
>> "md5" is determined from the md5 checksum of the kernel dump header
>> struct.
>
>Actually that was PHK's. 
>
>PHK, what was your motivation in changing the saved core filename?

I wanted to avoid having to open the disk device in RW mode, so the
best way to find out if we had already saved a dump was to make
a hash of the header and look for that.

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