Subject: Re: kernel panic messages
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/03/2003 14:49:04
[ On Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 17:57:29 (+0200), Martin Husemann wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: kernel panic messages
>
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 01:45:10AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > i've been rather annoyed by a panic message not being unique
> > in the past.  a simple additional number for strings for now
> > would not be a step backwards...
> 
> how about changing the panic signature to include __FILE__ and __LINE__ just
> before the const char * fmt?

I've always wondered why it wasn't done this way in the first place....
(or at least in more recent BSDs :-)

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