On Nov 27, 10:08am, mrg@eterna.com.au (matthew green) wrote:
-- Subject: re: lwp id in ktrace

Yes, by adding a version record. If that record is absent, then we fall
back to the old code.

christos

|    
|    I've been thinking about this, and I cannot see how we can do it easily
|    in a backwards compatible way. Unfortunately there is no header in the
|    ktrace.out files so that we can deduce the version (we could add a version
|    header now though). 
| 
| is there a way to change the output such that old kdump will simply
| fail gracefully with new input?
-- End of excerpt from matthew green