Re: new options for hurd crash server
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:30:54AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I've added some options to the Hurd crash server (/hurd/crash),
> that takes over when a program crashes and wants to "dump core".
Looks good!
> Theoretically one can select the crash server naming point programs will
> use with the CRASHSERVER environment variable. But that does not appear to
> be working. If it were, then I would suggest having the default
> installation make three naming points for the three modes of operation:
>
> # settrans -c /servers/crash-suspend /hurd/crash --suspend
> # settrans -c /servers/crash-kill /hurd/crash --kill
> # settrans -c /servers/crash-dump-core /hurd/crash --dump-core
>
> and then /servers/crash can be a symlink to one of these, to choose the
> system-wide default behavior. Users can use CRASHSERVER=/servers/crash-HOW
> in their environment to select the desired option for particular uses.
>
> But, that does not appear to be working, so right now until we get around
> to fixing that bug, it's /servers/crash or nothing and the system-wide
> default is the only choice.
But we can still have all three translators and the symlink, can't we?
Then we are prepared when setting the variable works.
Thanks,
Marcus
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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