Subject: Re: @booted_kernel magic symlink?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@TooLs.DE>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/27/2006 18:52:49
Hi,
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Here's a quick-and-dirty hack, very lightly tested. There's deliberately
> no stop routine to delete the symlink, and it runs before savecore; the
> idea is that if the system crashed, you can save the failed kernel....
Hmm, wouldn't it make much more sense if it would run *after* savecore?
That way the symlink would most likely point to the kernel that actually
crashed, not the one that is currently booting...
Ciao,
Wolfgang
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ws@TooLs.DE Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH