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Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version


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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