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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> said:
> 
> > It's a real worry that writing a crash dump to disk might stomp in the
> > wrong place, but I don't recall it ever happening in practice.  But
> > occasionally, yes, a dump was not generated at all, or not completed.
> 
> How do you test that? Not in some contrieved situation, under real crashes.

Sorry for being unclear: by "in practice" I meant "under real crashes" i.e.
I was referring more to what we heard back from users than my own testing.

Hugh

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