> > > That's true to be 100% accurate, but the idea is based on the notion > that someone patching kernel binaries would reboot soon after. It > wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a lot better than the current > situation for post mortem analysis during development and for customers > sending in dumps. > > When I say bundle, I really mean place a copy in the same directory as > the dump so they are a point in time copy, and can easily be tar'd up > with the dump. > > Cheers, > Greg
Yeah, that's a no-no. We did a lot of work in Solaris 7 to eliminate the same problem for symbol tables -- savecore used to build the symtabs afterward as well and it was often wrong. People have patches that don't require reboots, and also the more complex problem is the notion of booting the system to something entirely different, like an alternate root, or a fail-safe image, and so forth. Everything that needs to be in the dump needs to be in the dump. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. blogs.sun.com/mws/
