> But observe that to DTRT here is actually hard.  You want the name of
> the kernel that was running.  You would find that name in the dump.
> But to know the offset in the dump to find the name, you need the
> nlist from the kernel you are looking for.

Worse - to even *find* the dump, you need to know where it was taken.
There's no guarantee that the dumpdev in the crashed kernel is the same
as the dumpdev in the running kernel.

> I suspect that's probably why the savecore author just gave up and
> DTWT. :/

I'd actually prefer to see savecore grow an option to tell it where the
crashed kernel is, for the (rare, I suspect) case where savecore is
being run under a kernel other than the one that crashed.  This will, I
think, solve (FSVO "solve") all the problems: it will allow manual
override in the cases where doing TRT mechanically is hard, and its
presence will point out the issue to admins, making TWT less of a
problem when it happens.

But, of course, since it's unlikely I'd be doing the work....

/~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML	       mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B