- dumpon utility has not used kern.dumpdev sysctl
since rev. 1.14 (sbin/dumpon/dumpon.c) when phk@
updated it to use the DIOCSKERNELDUMP ioctl [1]
- remove obsolete reference to sysctl(3)
While I am there, fix two style nits:
- use .Nm instead of `dumpon'
- change NOTES to IMPLEMENTATION NOTES, to bring
it in line with recommended section headings in
mdoc(7)
Original patch by: Martin Faxer <gmh003532brfmasthugget.se> [1]
PR: docs/39293
Approved and Reviewed by: des (mentor), re (scottl, bmah)
This allows obtaining crash dumps from the panics occured during late stages
of kernel initialisation before system enters into single-user mode.
MFC after: 2 weeks
* Remove the text which states only devices with minor number 1 can be used
- this is no longer true.
* Mention that dumpon(8) cannot be used to capture dumps from panics during
kernel initialization.
* /dev/wd -> /dev/ad
PR: 19848
Submitted by: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
Reviewed by: sheldonh
least one reviewer is now unhappy with, since it contains incomplete
and misleading advice that is not easy to correct.
The net effect of this commit and the previous commit is to simply
remove all discussion of setting dumpdev to catch crash dumps
prior to entering user mode.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Corrected some bogus cross references to man pages that we don't/won't
have and either deleted them, or found a more appropriate man page
that we do have. Various other minor changes to silence manck.
Manck is currently down to about 200 lines of errors, down from
the 500 - 600+ when I started all this.
