From: Rik F. <fa...@va...> - 2000-08-18 00:55:52
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On Thu 17 Aug 2000 20:39:22 -0400, Gareth Hughes <ga...@va...> wrote: > Rik Faith wrote: > > > > Often it's impossible to tell the difference. E.g., a panic leads to a > > lockup, or a lockup would have caused a panic if only syslogd could write > > it out to a file. > > I was thinking that it might be nice to differentiate when you know for > sure it's a panic or an oops, rather than just bundling those bugs in > with the system hang ones. If you can't tell, it would go in the system > hang category. What do you think? I think that the fewer choices we have, the more accurate the reporting will be. We'll be using the categorization to get an idea of how severe the bug is. It seems to me that if it's an oops, panic, or complete system hang, it's a pretty bad bug (although, I grant you that oops are by far the easiest to fix). |