Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:18:22 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Horst von Brand wrote: > Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> said: > > > 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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