Automated submission of kernel panic reports

[Colin Percival]

On 11/02/13 18:15, dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote, On 11/03/2013 00:34:
>> Let me know if you see anything I missed.
> 
> Patch 1: mostly bikeshed stuff.
> Patch 2: double quote stuff.

Thanks.

> I didn't know anything about dump number rotation. How does that work? By
> default, upon the 11th dump, the bounds file will contain ``0'', but the last
> dump will be stored at /var/crash/{info,vmcore}.9 ? Because in that case, the
> ``bounds - 1'' method won't work.

Aside from a 3 minute window on HEAD, the versions of savecore which can rotate
back to using /var/crash/*.0 also create .last symlinks.  So I'm not worried
about that; if we don't have a .last symlink to rely on, bounds - 1 is good
enough.

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Colin Percival
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