kern/79421: Important new debugging/development feature for 5.4

[Daniel O'Connor]

>Number:         79421
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Important new debugging/development feature for 5.4
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 01 06:10:03 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Daniel O'Connor
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD inchoate.localdomain 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Thu Mar 31 11:28:52 CST 2005 darius at inchoate.localdomain:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/INCHOATE i386


>Description:
Frequently software developers are plagued by difficult to make decisions,
"Should I use C# or Java?", "What debugging approach should I try?", "Does
this tie REALLY go with my suit?".

I propose a new tool to aid in these vital questions.. /dev/8ball!
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Yes.
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Very doubtful.
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Don't count on it.
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Better not tell you now.

Features genuine 8 ball responses but at a blistering speed
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >dd if=/dev/8ball of=/dev/null bs=64k
^C1185+0 records in
1185+0 records out
77660160 bytes transferred in 1.470964 secs (52795412 bytes/sec)

Also featured are /dev/one and /dev/deadbeef to complement /dev/zero.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/dev-8ball.diff

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