I also like "beadm activate -t" for that purpose haha

I have at various points had a program to overlay a bunch of files into a temporary boot environment on the test machine; it would mount it at /a if it was not the live one, or just write in place if it was the live one, and then do another "beadm activate -t" and reboot

I would do "dmake -m serial -S install && $CODEMGR_WS/deploy.sh" basically over and over

Having dumpadm put crash dumps outside the boot environment also helps

Thanks for the tips!

Makes a lot of sense indeed

I'll probably work on a fork of the illumos repo and have a wip branch for frequent commits just in case

But it's worth it just for the annoyance of the dev machine rebooting again and again

And the crashes

alanc: is winlock still used?

I finally remembered to look at what the heck it does

richlowe: only if you still use Xsun with SunDGA

which folks who still have SPARC support might, but no one using the current illumos gate could be doing

thanks!

we didn't get around to removing it until 11.4 since everyone had forgotten it existed

it happened to be the last console message before I crashed, and I remembered to finally follow through on wondering what it was

when EOL'ing it, my history search found that it predated ARC, going back to SunOS 4 days, and just had a side mention in LSARC/1993/529 (DGA Drawable Interface) as a "Private shared memory locking protocol"

that ARC case also noted that libdga in the X consolidation had always had 'its

own copy of the interface definitions in its source code, since

<sys/winlockio.h> was never made available outside of the ON gate,

with a comment from 1991 noting that doing so was "a temporary hack

so we can develop the new /dev/winlock interface", showing once again

that nothing is as long-lasting as a temporary workaround.)'

thanks, at least we can be convinced about deleting it

I filed #16817 (fenix?)

BUG 16817: winlock can probably be removed (New)

↳ illumos.org/issues/16817

to make sure we remember

if I'd waited a few more seconds, I'd have not said "probably" :)

heh