savecore(8) increments /var/crash/bounds on each boot
Maxim Konovalov
maxim at macomnet.ru
Tue Jun 14 20:10:10 GMT 2005
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, 12:08-0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:49:44PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Are you sure its correct? Have you tested it with say bounds != 0 and a
> few core dumps in /var/crash?
No problems so far:
qemu6# ls -l /var/crash
total 336080
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3 Jun 14 20:02 bounds
-rw------- 1 root wheel 426 Jun 14 19:22 info.10
-rw------- 1 root wheel 426 Jun 14 19:31 info.11
-rw------- 1 root wheel 425 Jun 14 19:49 info.12
-rw------- 1 root wheel 426 Jun 14 19:57 info.13
-rw------- 1 root wheel 462 Jun 14 20:02 info.14
-rw------- 1 root wheel 424 Jun 14 17:44 info.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5 May 8 07:05 minfree
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 Jun 14 19:23 vmcore.10
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 Jun 14 19:31 vmcore.11
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 Jun 14 19:50 vmcore.12
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 Jun 14 19:58 vmcore.13
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 Jun 14 20:03 vmcore.14
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 Jun 14 17:45 vmcore.7
qemu6# cat /var/crash/bounds
15
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Maxim Konovalov
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