Re: Reducing SIGINFO verbosity

On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 6:06 AM Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote:

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

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35576 for those who wish to weigh in.

Warner


> Cheers
> Michael
>
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> Michael Gmelin
>