Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:33:36 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Availability of kdb |
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > And quite frankly, for most of the real problems (as opposed to the stupid > > bugs - of which there are many, as the latest crap with "truncate()" has > > shown us) a debugger doesn't much help. And the real problems are what I > > worry about. The rest is just details. It will get fixed eventually. > > Yes, no doubt you agree that stepping through the code with a source > level debugger even once would have caught this one:
No I definitely do not agree.
In fact, I would never have seen that problem with _any_ debugger. It simply would not have happened for me.
And guess what? I saw the bug without any debugger within minutes of having been told what the problem was. A debugger would not have helped.
And that is the case in 99% of all cases. In most cases the people who see the problem aren't the same people who can debug them. Giving such a person a debugger doesn't help.
Linus
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