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

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Jun 19 22:27:58 GMT 2005


On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:14:47AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:36:00PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Do you understand the fix?  How does lying in printheader() fix anything?
> > > Moving the call to getbounds() back to the original location is the "fix"
> > > but then it negates -vv.  We shouldn't lie in printheader().
> >
> > Fair enough, on dwhite's suggestion here's another try that splits the
> > increment-and-write out from getbounds() so that the bounds value can
> > be shown with -vv.
> ..snip..
> > --- savecore.c.orig	2005-06-13 16:19:41.000000000 -0400
> > +++ savecore.c	2005-06-15 09:41:52.000000000 -0400
> ...
> > +	writebounds(bounds+1);
>                 ^^^^^^^^
>                 bounds + 1
>
> I like the patch, after the style(9) fix.  Might as well avoid a
> brucification. ;-)  Who's going to commit this patch?

I'll get this committed.

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