Random thought.... May be completely off base. Could this debug info be NFS shared? assuming like computers, or would it be different on each computer.
On 11/27/05, Tavis Ormandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:50:30PM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you > > think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) > > > > This should definitely be enabled by default, we dont need to enable > debugging information for this to be useful, just having the symbol > table available will make getting backtraces and diagnosing problems > many times easier with little extra diskspace requirements. Gentoo is > way behind on this feature, all the other major distributions have > caught on to how useful detatched debugging symbols can be. > > If we dont enable this by default, I think the users who really need it > (ie, the ones who want us to track down a bug but are unable to provide > enough debugging information to do so) probably wont have the foresight > to turn it on. > > This could also be a major boon for administrators imho, if a service > is dumping core unpredicatbly this feature and enabling coredumps would > be enough to start tracking down the problem, or at least identifying > the culprit. > > -- > ------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | finger me for my pgp key. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
