cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/ddb db_command.c db_command.h db_lex.c db_lex.h db_main.c db_script.c ddb.h

[Julian Elischer]

Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> 
>> Wow, very cool debugging feature!  Any more sweet DDB features in the 
>> pipeline?
> 
> Thanks!  DDB capture output, scripting, and textdumps were pretty much 
> what I had in the queue for DDB at this point.  I'll see if I can't come 
> up with some stuff, and look forward to hearing about how people use 
> these ones.  I'll also happily accept bug reports...
> 
> Textdumps should open up the door for some interesting things in terms 
> of bug management--I'd love to see someone put together some 
> rc.d/rc.conf parts to do automated crash report submission (disabled by 
> default, of course) and a database to hold the results.  I suspect a 
> moderate number of panic reports are lost on the basis that filing a 
> proper bug report is fairly difficult (get out kgdb, etc), or that the 
> boxes quietly reboot and the core dumps rot on disk (to be deleted when 
> space runs out).  Perhaps hoovering up those textdumps, especially if we 
> can correlate them with one another using some automated processing, 
> might be quite informative.  Or just a good time sink :-).

scripting is made almost infinitly more useful with some registers/variables..

(especially if there is some simple looping.. allowing following of a linked
list or similar.)

> 
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge