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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:14:22 +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:  <9566.1019020462@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:46:40 PDT." <20020416174640.A29641@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20020416174640.A29641@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:05:34AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> savecore creates 2 files "md5.info" and "md5.core" where
>>> "md5" is determined from the md5 checksum of the kernel dump header
>> 
>> 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.
>
>No one I have spoken to likes the change.  Please put us back to
>traditional behavior.

Well, Marcel has taken the lead in the area, so I would suggest you
discuss it with him.  I have no preferences either way.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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