Brian Hall wrote:
>
> Thanks for the detailed reply. But will lkcd work if there is a big crash and
> interrupts can't be handled? The worst crashes in Linux usually end with
> "Aieee, killing interrupt handler" !
It SHOULD work. If it doesn't, we consider that a bug and will work to fix it.
If you have details of cases where the dump doesn't get created, we need to
know
about it. Since Matt has done most of the work in the kernel (where this is an
issue), I'll let him chew on this one...
Thanks,
Tom
>
> On 09-Nov-99 Tom Morano wrote:
> > Brian Hall wrote:
> >>
> >> Will the crash dump work if the interrupt handler dies? I have a script
> >> that
> >> will kill a 2.2.5-2.2.10 kernel via a TCP exploit, but I don't know a way
> >> to
> >> do
> >> that with 2.2.13. Can someone tell me how to cause this? I'd like to test
> >> this
> >> case.
>
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> Brian Hall <brianw.hall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Linux Consultant
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