On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:34:01PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:24:42AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > I'm regularly upgrading 4.0-RELEASE to 5.x-CURRENT to check that > > the upgrade path wasn't broken, and this check comes very handy. > > I wouldn't object though if it was done using kern.osreldate. > > > > I'd happily test any patches in this direction for you, John. > > Thanks. Since Peter made the change, I'd like to wait for him to comment > on the code I sent him that would avoid the core dump. I think that running > sh as a final check is valid, but I'd like to see a 'probable' case checked > first and an message printed accordingly before making the core dump as a > last resort (in favour of shooting the whole foot off - one toe is better > than the whole foot!). > Sure, that would be a much better (and safer) approach. Could you please send me your code as well, I'm interested in revieweing it.
P.S. Nice to see you're still in the FreeBSD business. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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