Re: kern/41310: NetBSD 5 savecore does not

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41310; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>
To: M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost
Cc: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>, 
gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, Hauke Fath 
<hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/41310: NetBSD 5 savecore does not 
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:59:16 +0200

 M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost said:
 > It was good to drop use of getbootfile(3)
 
 While we are here: The kernel saved by savecore is usually
 useless for me, for multiple reasons:
 -getbootfile(3) doesn't work if the kernel wasn't loaded
  from the root file system (eg by TFTP)
 -even if it works this is not necessarily the kernel
  belonging to the crash dump
 -I have a netbsd.gdb in the kernel build directory which
  is obviously better for debugging.
 So I would like some option to savecore(8) which makes
 that it just saves the crashdump but doesn't care
 about the kernel.
 
 best regards
 Matthias
 
 
 
 
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