Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

[Russell Miller]

Any chance of making the dying thread sleep just long enough for syslogd to 
write it out to the file, then panic?  Since it's an assertion, we have a 
little more leeway then in a page fault OOPS, for example.

--Russell

On Wed April 2 2003 3:51 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Russell Miller <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Since this was an assertion that failed, one would think that bringing
> > the system down automatically in an orderly - then, if that fails,
> > disorderly - fashion would be possible.
>
> The way to handle this is to make arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:die() optionally
> call panic() rather than do_exit().
>
> It makes sense.  It does mean that we now have zero chance of the
> diagnostic info making it to the system logs.