Re: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:09:44AM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > Doug MacEachern wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > > > > > >>If you read the rest of the post I mention it (without telling the name > >>:). The problem with this module is that it's useful only after you have > >>t

Re: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Mark P. Fister
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:21:24PM -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:24:11 +0800 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor >

Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:24:11 +0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A few moons ago we have discussed on

Re: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Doug MacEachern
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > You can get a backtrace if you run the process under debugger without > dumping a core file. No special setup required. I was thinking to attach > the debugger on SIGSEGV event. Is it too late? I see certain gnome apps > failing and they ask you if yo

Re: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Stas Bekman
Doug MacEachern wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > > >>If you read the rest of the post I mention it (without telling the name >>:). The problem with this module is that it's useful only after you have >>the core file. which is not good, because (as I've already explained): >

Re: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Doug MacEachern
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > If you read the rest of the post I mention it (without telling the name > :). The problem with this module is that it's useful only after you have > the core file. which is not good, because (as I've already explained): it's important to mention Devel

Re: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Stas Bekman
Doug MacEachern wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > > >>A few moons ago we have discussed on the dev list a tool for automatic >>segfault detection (including multiple segfaults during 'make test') and >>core backtrace generation. I'm quite frankly tired of explaining again >>a

Re: Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Doug MacEachern
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > A few moons ago we have discussed on the dev list a tool for automatic > segfault detection (including multiple segfaults during 'make test') and > core backtrace generation. I'm quite frankly tired of explaining again > and again that we need a core f

Challenging things to do: SIGSEGV catcher and backtrace extractor

2002-04-11 Thread Stas Bekman
A few moons ago we have discussed on the dev list a tool for automatic segfault detection (including multiple segfaults during 'make test') and core backtrace generation. I'm quite frankly tired of explaining again and again that we need a core file backtrace, how to get the core file dumped a