Re: The stability crisis

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:27:05 -0400

According to Chuck Lever:
> having a nice integrated kernel debugger like SGI's kdb would be great
> to resolve problems like these. the patch to dump an oops to a floppy is
> also good, but would it be possible to dump it to a file or a small
> partition on an internal disk instead?

You'd have to be careful to protect the disk geometry info. Memory
corruption could change the "dump at this block" variable... :-(

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Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
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