On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:52:21PM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:54:57PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > 
> > Why would DDB cause hangs?
> >
> 
> If you are not at the console and the kernel panics and drops to ddb
> then that is the same as a hang if you were remotely accessing the
> machine.  Without ddb the machine would have just rebooted which would
> be annoying but, hopefully, you could get back onto the machine after
> it came back up.

If that is a problem, we could add a timeout to the DDB session.

When the timeout expires the machine reboots.
When the first command is accepted by DDB the timeout is disabled.

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                                Michael van Elst
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