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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:30:43 -0500
From: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)
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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 <taviso@gentoo.org> 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.
>
> --
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> taviso@sdf.lonestar.org | finger me for my pgp key.
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>
>
>

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