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On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you |
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> think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) |
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This should definitely be enabled by default, we dont need to enable |
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debugging information for this to be useful, just having the symbol |
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table available will make getting backtraces and diagnosing problems |
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many times easier with little extra diskspace requirements. Gentoo is |
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way behind on this feature, all the other major distributions have |
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caught on to how useful detatched debugging symbols can be. |
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If we dont enable this by default, I think the users who really need it |
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(ie, the ones who want us to track down a bug but are unable to provide |
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enough debugging information to do so) probably wont have the foresight |
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to turn it on. |
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This could also be a major boon for administrators imho, if a service |
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is dumping core unpredicatbly this feature and enabling coredumps would |
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be enough to start tracking down the problem, or at least identifying |
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the culprit. |
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