From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EgOYi-0001Ip-CX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:35:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jARFXqpN008491; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:33:52 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jARFUiMw032675 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:30:44 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so1611293wra for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j33ztEaeTl9Kmdr529CAci73mxSTqDkgY3wHTEs+LmKJVfcaoT8ouQdsKvAKt5cTG2ZUvktS0ENuoj8XymTxtBAi/J4QT9TylSP4/jTL+mjB21ewi5i8xOyUJY6dKdCwS3bxFCnLzIgIVDcD5YPniBXynWvAzvS0MXn5uO6bIFM= Received: by 10.54.121.9 with SMTP id t9mr7687024wrc; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.110.9 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10511270730t5bdb3ef4ke634677fa4f4171d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:30:43 -0500 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?) In-Reply-To: <20051127150423.GA14747@sdf.lonestar.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1133027430.5317.307.camel@localhost> <20051127150423.GA14747@sdf.lonestar.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jARFUiMw032675 X-Archives-Salt: 8fe1e66b-9b6c-4480-a5f1-75211a252f89 X-Archives-Hash: bd625f48ce07a8c26dcbcfe4e1c89bab 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 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. > > -- > ------------------------------------- > taviso@sdf.lonestar.org | finger me for my pgp key. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list