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    SubjectRe: What's left over.
    On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Horst von Brand wrote:
    > Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> said:
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    > > It's a real worry that writing a crash dump to disk might stomp in the
    > > wrong place, but I don't recall it ever happening in practice. But
    > > occasionally, yes, a dump was not generated at all, or not completed.
    >
    > How do you test that? Not in some contrieved situation, under real crashes.

    Sorry for being unclear: by "in practice" I meant "under real crashes" i.e.
    I was referring more to what we heard back from users than my own testing.

    Hugh

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