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Re: kl_dump_erase commented out in kl_util.c?

To: Tony Dziedzic <Tony.Dziedzic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: kl_dump_erase commented out in kl_util.c?
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:53:37 -0700
Cc: lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Alacritech, Inc.
References: <88D2015B3AF7BF4B91272EC25A9FE09769F309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Tony Dziedzic wrote:
> 
> My test system is attempting to copy a "stale" crash dump each time I
> reboot the system normally after having previously forced a crash dump.
> The call to kl_dump_erase in kl_util.c is commented out (in an #if 0
> conditional), which means if the swapper doesn't overwrite the dump
> header lcrash will think it needs to copy the crash dump again the next
> time it runs.
> 
> This appears to be an artifact from testing that should be removed for
> the released code.  I removed the conditionals and lcrash works as
> expected.
> 
> FYI,
> Tony Dziedzic
> Storigen Systems, Inc.

Fixed.  Thanks, Tony.

--Matt

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