Re: Reducing SIGINFO verbosity

From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd_at_grem.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:06:24 UTC

On Fri, 21 May 2021 08:36:49 -0600
Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 7:38 AM Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:57:17PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:  
> > > No, I don’t think there’s any reason to default it differently on
> > > stable  
> > vs  
> > > current. I think it’s useful (and I prefer the more verbose form,
> > > which isn’t the default).  
> >
> > I agree that there's no reason for the default to be different, but
> > I would say that it is much easier for someone who knows that there
> > is a default to be changed to change it, than it is for someone who
> > does not. Therefore, if the information is not useful to someone
> > who does not know how to get rid of it, then it should default to
> > not being displayed, IMHO.
> >  
> 
> I plan on changing the default for non-INVARIANT kernels back to
> the old behavior.
> 
> INVARIANT kernels will keep this behavior because it's a debugging
> kernel and this is one more thing to help debugging problems.
> 

Did this ever happen? I just installed a fresh 13.1-RELEASE production
system (non-INVARIANT kernel) and it seems like SIGINFO still outputs
kernel stack information.

Cheers
Michael

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Michael Gmelin