Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/02/09:37:51
On Mar 2 09:11, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:56:40AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >(*) It would be nice if you could try to shorten an strace in a meaningful
> > way next time. Hundreds of lines with
> > "--- Process 2480, exception C0000005 at 00000000
> > don't really add any useful information and just fill up people's
> > mailboxes. Thanks.
>
> Sorry, Corinna, I have to disagree with you here.
>
> The cygcheck output was adequate to debug the problem in this case.
> Personally, I would rather that people forego sending unsolicited strace
> output entirely rather than either just blithely sending a large
> attachment or, IMO, worse, thinking that they understand the output and
> snipping the out the "irrelevant" parts.
>
> i.e., if no one has asked you for an strace, then don't send it.
We don't really disagree. I just forgot to mention not to send straces
without having been asked for them. Nevetheless, several hundred lines
with "--- Process 2480, exception C0000005 at 00000000" are not really
helpful.
Corinna
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