Re: Is it really necessary for fatal() to dump core?

I'm going to push back on that; the administrator doesn't really have
any need to get a core when, for example, append_domain doesn't start
with .'.

Squid.conf is bloated as it is; if there are cases where a core could
be conceivably useful, they should be converted to fatal_dump. From
what I've seen they'll be a small minority at best...

On 19/05/2009, at 2:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> just make that behaviour configurable?
>
> core_on_fatal {on|off}
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> 2009/5/19 Mark Nottingham <mnot_at_yahoo-inc.com>:
>> tools.c:fatal() dumps core because it calls abort.
>>
>> Considering that the core can be quite large (esp. on a 64bit
>> system), and
>> that there's fatal_dump() as well if you really want one, can we
>> just make
>> fatal() exit(1) instead of abort()ing?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Mark Nottingham mnot_at_yahoo-inc.com
>>
>>
>>

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