How to report bugs (Re: 6.2-STABLE deadlock?)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 28 April 2007 04:33, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> A thought: how hard would it be to add some method of forcing a
> system crash, that would dump core, from the command line?  Something
> that, by default, would be disabled, but for remote debugging
> purposes, one could enable in the kernel and do a 'sysctl
> kernel.force_core_crash=1' to have it do it?  I imagine that having a
> core to analyze would allow providing more information then nothing
> at all, no?

I think you can do this..
sysctl debug.kdb.panic=1

Alas that appears to be a -current thing. 6.x has debug.kdb.enter 
though.

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