Re: Hurd logging. (was zalloc panic)

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:09:41PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> 
> > I would say that if you recognize a situation that would make all
> > further writes (to a file, to a socket) trigger another emergency
> > log (or, let's say there is a significant likelihood for it), it
> > would make sense for the server to log a message, and then die.
> 
> Instead of just dying, the server could also simply disable logging
> (after loggin an according message) and give the user time to fix it
> (or to reboot the system).

I think that would only even more obfuscate the situation you are trying to
debug.

Marcus

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