On 04/28, Dave Anderson wrote:
>
> >     1. How the command line should look?
>
> Well, for the non-live, crashed. version of this dumpfile, it should look 
> exactly
> as the current ramdump MEMORY-IMAGE@ADDRESS implementation, correct?

I agree, the "raw:" prefix/mode doesn't buy too much, lets drop it.

> As for the "hybrid-live-dump" version, I'm not sure.  So for now I guess you 
> can
> continue using the "live:" prefix to the dumpfile name.  If we come up with a
> more logical naming scheme in the future, we can always change it later.
>
> >
> >     2. Should I re-use ramdump.c or should I just add the new file which
> >        re-implements read_ramdump() ?
>
> Given that these *are* essentially ramdump files, you've convinced me that 
> ramdump.c
> should be used.

OK, will try to do tomorrow.

> If I had been aware of exactly
> what your "/tmp/MEM" file consisted of, and that it exists on the host 
> machine, I could
> have avoided 80% of our back-and-forth emails.  I'm really sorry for having 
> wasted
> your time.

Heh, it is me who should apologize ;) Looking back it is clear to me I should 
have
mentioned this explicitely.

Oleg.

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