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Re: fatal error handling



 >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.
 >
 >And 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.

Okay... fine. Can you at least have MiNT do the:

   Fatal system crash... press any key: 
   System will now reboot...   
   
Thanks...


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