Re: Core dumps, patch

pixi@slaughter.com
Sun, 03 Mar 1996 22:13:58 -0800


: > Uwe Ohse wrote:
: > > This patch adds:
: How about prink the abnormal termination of a process if desired. This will
: enable root to find broken programs without looking for corefiles.

uh... how annoying. not all abnormal terminations are things
that i would care about on my machine (like, for instance,
someone debugging their program). the last thing i need is
_more_ stuff getting logged...

besides, the way for root to find out about broken programs is to
either note which programs are broken while using them or listen
to the users who complain. if there's a broken program that no
one uses, it's generally not very interesting... if no one
complains about a broken program they use (my users complain
vociferously, by the way), they probably don't care enough to get
it fixed.

--xmsb