Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 died on our VAX. Message-ID: <239@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 17:19:56 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.239 Posted: Thu Mar 15 17:19:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 03:01:40 EST References: <301@erix.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 16 > Is there any way to force a dump in these conditions? ... > > Mike Williams I would like to see "take a coredump" as one of the options of the reboot system call. In fact I think I'll hack that in. There have been times when the system was very sick that the only cure was rebooting yet one wanted a core dump to study. Such a time was a year ago when I was searching for why a process running versatec would hang in the pagein() routine. I solved it at the time by putting a "doomsday" ioctl call (suser only, of course) into the dz driver which I happened to be playing with at the time anyway. It was rather fun to type "crash" and actually have it happen. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls