docs/183024: textdump(4) mentions call doadump, should be textdump dump

Sevan Janiyan venture37 at geeklan.co.uk
Fri May 30 19:00:01 UTC 2014


The following reply was made to PR docs/183024; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sevan Janiyan <venture37 at geeklan.co.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, mexas at bris.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: docs/183024: textdump(4) mentions call doadump, should be textdump
 dump
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:56:47 +0100

 Hi, the configuration section states:
 
 "By default, kernel dumps generated on panic or	via explicit requests 
 for a dump will be regular memory dumps; how-ever, by using the	textdump 
 set command in	ddb(4),	or by setting the debug.ddb.textdump.pending 
 sysctl to 1 using sysctl(8), it is possible to request that the next 
 dump be a textdump."
 
 when you call doadump, the textdump is created, it's not possible to set 
 the type after requesting a dump because the dump happens there & then 
 on call.
 
 On 10.0-RELEASE TEXTDUMP_PREFERRED is honored.
 Entering the debugger & running call doadump outputs
 textdump: creating 'ddb.txt'.
 textdump: creating 'config.txt'.
 textdump: creating 'msgbuf.txt'.
 textdump: creating 'msgbuf.txt'.
 textdump: creating 'version.txt'.
 Textdump complete.
 = 0


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