savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Tue Jun 14 18:49:46 GMT 2005


On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, 01:20-0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:23:08PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> > I notice that as of sbin/savecore/savecore.c 1.72 and in 5.4-RELEASE
> > savecore increments the number in /var/crash/bounds on each boot,
> > regardless of whether it rebooted due to panic or was a clean shutdown.
> > Is this the desired behaviour or an unintentional side effect?
>
> It is an unintentional side affect.  If I wasn't constantly experiencing
> kernel landminds every time I sit down to do major FreeBSD, I would have
> gotten to this issue.

I am going to ask re@ for permission to commit the fix if nobody beats
me.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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