Date: 17 Apr 2002 06:56:20 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c Message-ID: <xzpads2x6rv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020416204726.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20020416204726.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On 16-Apr-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > 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. > Hmm, I really don't like that. I find the current scheme of vmcore.XX and > kernel.XX to be rather intuitive. For one thing, it makes it very easy to see > which dump is the most recent. Why can't you save the hash of the header in > the core file or something but still keep the filenames usable. Surely we > don't have to give up useful filenames for this. The point is moot anyway, because savecore(8) now opens the device read-write. Just revert to the old naming scheme. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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