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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:31:06 -0800 Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:

| On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:03:03PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:41:47 +0100 Vince <fuzzy77@free.fr> wrote:
| > 
| > | Mike Fedyk wrote:
| > | > Interesting.  It would be nice to have a boot option that halts the system
| > | > after the first oops, instead of trying to continue.
| > 
| > You mean like the "panic_on_oops" sysctl??  (implemented in i386 & ppc64)
| 
| ...
| 
| > From Vince:
| > | It worked, but I had -- as expected -- to write the oops by hand.
| > | (user request to Randy: would it be possible to have an option in 
| > | kmsgdump to only write the first oops on floppy ???)
| > 
| > Um, could you elaborate on why you would want that?
| > kmsgdump assumes that the entire floppy belongs to it, so there
| > should be plenty of room for multiple oopsen (although I don't
| > know what it does on disk-full....).
| > 
| > I plan to add support for > 32 KB log buf sizes, but that's all I have
| > planned for now.
| 
| Wouldn't he only get the first oops on the diskette if he had the sysctl
| mentioned above enabled?

Yes, I think that you are right.

--
~Randy
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