Re: Linux kdb (was Re: first thread)

[Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@jcsbs.lanobis.de>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:20:26AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 0. Kernel panic dumps. (and a mechanism to shoot those humans who attempt
> to mail their 100M coredumps to linux-kernel)

Make that "panic and oops dumps". I had some thoughts about that, too. I think
the right way to do this is to specify a dump partition like you normally do
for root, mount it at boot time and lock it after you had an Oops / Panic so
the user _has_ to analyse the partition's contents to get rid of the warning
messages saying the dump partition was not mounted.

0.5. Put all symbol information into the kernel (obsoletes System.map and
     ksymoops)

> 1. crash(1) to analyse those (dumps not humans) in 0. as well as playing
> with live /dev/mem.

The name sounds a bit strange to me ...
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