On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 11:57 -0700, MC wrote:
> You are definitely on the right track because rebooting
> unnecessarily without notification is a stinker!
Thanks, although this won't necessarily help there - when a system
really does need to panic, it quickly tries to save a core, and then
just goes _down_, no warning and minimal codepaths involved.
Kernel panics are a safety feature in OpenSolaris: when something *bad*
has happened in the kernel somewhere, to continue would risk data loss
or corruption, something that we do our very best to avoid.
Doing anything before going down (like notifiying the user in this way)
would imply interaction with a corrupt kernel, thus potentially making
matters worse.
However, coming back up and explaining what actually had happened seems
like a polite thing to do (better ask for forgiveness, etc.)
I'll keep working on this, and try to refine the UI as others had
suggested.
cheers,
tim
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Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf
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