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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Reply-To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Subject: Important new debugging/development feature for 5.4
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>Number:         79421
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Important new debugging/development feature for 5.4
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 01 06:10:03 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Fri Apr 01 06:25:24 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Sun Apr 10 18:40:20 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Daniel O'Connor
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD inchoate.localdomain 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Thu Mar 31 11:28:52 CST 2005 darius@inchoate.localdomain:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/INCHOATE i386


>Description:
Frequently software developers are plagued by difficult to make decisions,
"Should I use C# or Java?", "What debugging approach should I try?", "Does
this tie REALLY go with my suit?".

I propose a new tool to aid in these vital questions.. /dev/8ball!
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Yes.
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Very doubtful.
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Don't count on it.
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >head -1 /dev/8ball
Better not tell you now.

Features genuine 8 ball responses but at a blistering speed
[inchoate 14:27] ~ >dd if=/dev/8ball of=/dev/null bs=64k
^C1185+0 records in
1185+0 records out
77660160 bytes transferred in 1.470964 secs (52795412 bytes/sec)

Also featured are /dev/one and /dev/deadbeef to complement /dev/zero.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/dev-8ball.diff

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: maxim 
State-Changed-When: Fri Apr 1 06:23:21 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Merged to HEAD, RELENG_5 and all security branches, thanks! 

Please use Severity: critical for such PRs next time. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=79421 

From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/79421: Important new debugging/development feature for 5.4
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:39:54 +0100 (BST)

 On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
 
 > http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/dev-8ball.diff
 
 Submitter may also be interested in:
 
      http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/freebsd_dev/
 
 While written for an older version of FreeBSD, this useful debugging and 
 development tool may come in handy.
 
 Robert N M Watson
>Unformatted:
