Re: (dumb?) idea for kernel oops...

James Willard (james@cows.ml.org)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:28:33 -0400 (EDT)

>
> I was thinking about when the kernel hangs or otherwise dies with an
> oops...what's to keep it from saving the crash info in a known memory
> location and restarting the kernel from scratch? Its dead anyway, so
> its not like you're going to lose any information...but you might be
> able to save some.

Why don't we just make the kernel stable instead? :) Instead of saying
"Oh, it will just recover itself in case of a hang" we should be thinking
"It will not hang"

Just my $0.02

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James Willard
james@cows.ml.org

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