Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Core dump sanity Message-ID: <71370@brunix.UUCP> Date: 9 Apr 91 07:19:35 GMT References: Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 22 In article scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: >in most (almost all, in fact) it's sort of silly. For instance, not >many people have a use for an Icon core, much less a Mathematica >core. > >Since few (if any) of the users will have the source to debug >with anyhow, it's not a loss: Well, but how about sending NeXTmail to the developer of the program with the core file included? As the file get compressed the size of that should be not too bad. And it is still far superior to any customer complaining that well, "He/she did it as always, but the suddenly..." and noone will ever have a clue what went wrong. Of course applications should not dump core in the first place :-) But if they do they should get debugged and to do so a programmer want a core file. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet