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From: volf@oasis.IAEhv.nl (Frank Volf)
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Subject: dumpon feature request
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>Number:         4303
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       dumpon accepts any device, including none swap devices
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 14 08:50:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Oct 12 15:58:30 MEST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 12 15:59:48 MEST 1997
>Originator:     Frank Volf
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
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>Environment:

FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE, FreeBSD-2.2.2

>Description:

The dumpon program allows to set the dumpdevice for dumping kernel craches.
Currently the program accepts any device, including non swap devices for
dumping. I'm not sure if it will really dump on a non swap partition (I
corrected my mistake before a dump occured), but it would certainly be 
a good idea to add a check to the program that verifies the device that
the user enters.

Just a thought...

Frank
>How-To-Repeat:
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>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 12 15:58:30 MEST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  

I think it is legitime to dump to any device.  I was once 
contemplating to make dumping to tapes work, but never got around to 
do so.  Anyway, i don't see why it needs to be restrained to swap 
partitions. 
>Unformatted:
