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    SubjectRe: Oops assist...
    "Michael B. Trausch" wrote:
    > Currently, oops reports are syslog'd.

    Yes, but that's dangerous, because it means that the oops is send
    to a user mode process, the user mode process calls write(), fsync(),
    etc.
    It means that a crashing kernel continues to write to you harddisk.
    You want to minimize this as much as possible.

    And: if we deserialize the filesystem, this will often fail,
    because the 'kill thread' might cause a lost semaphore, and thus
    a deadlock.

    Regards,
    Manfred


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