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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
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Subject: Re: 4.2 died on our VAX.
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Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 17:19:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 15 17:19:56 1984
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> 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
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