Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: core files (was Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts) | Date | Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:28:52 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
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> Long term, I think the whole core file idea needs to be tossed in > favor of just starting a debugger.
Obviously also paging the party responsible for the crashed program. Using some random vt for the task when a daemon crashes, too, I suppose?
You can take the corefile and examine it at leisure on another (bigger/not so busy/whatever) machine. That is a big plus in my book. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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