Re: fatal error handling

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

>  >Would it be safe to do this after a *fatal* error?  
>  >What if it's the filesystem for the disk where you're writing
>  >the log that went *KAZOOM*...?
> 
> Boot partition is always TOSFS, so it could be written there.

Andy why do you think that a TOS-FS is safe from crashes? Howard Chu
is right, a log or core-dump must be handled with some dedicated code
and preferably to a dedicated partition. Not worth the effort IMHO,
MiNT has plenty of debug-features already.


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