conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 6 00:50:13 PST 2004


The following reply was made to PR conf/63648; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:50:03 -0800

 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:20:10AM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR conf/63648; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
 > To: Xin LI <delphij at frontfree.net>
 > Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default
 > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:12:52 +0200
 > 
 >  On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:48:01AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
 >  [...]
 >  > On a machine having big RAM, it will be a nightmare to have many 
 >  > coredumps saved in /var/crash, and compressing it by default will 
 >  > make unattended boxes possible to have more dumps saved.
 >  > 	For users do not want to save a compressed coredumps, it 
 >  > is always possible to set savecore_flags="" in rc.conf. 
 >  > 
 >  > Index: rc.conf
 >  [...]
 >  > -savecore_flags=""	# Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
 >  > +savecore_flags="-z"	# Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
 >  
 >  I don't see much point making it the default, as it violates POLA.
 >  Many users expect ``gdb -k'' to just work, without needing to
 >  uncompress core first.
 
 I agree..as you say in your other response, that's what the variable is there for.
 
 Kris


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