On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote: > BTW: the stacktrace option has never worked on my machine(s), unless you > call "endless loop" working. Also, I could never get out of that signal > handler. Gimp just started to suck 100% cpu time when I tried to "e"xit. > > I doubt that this thing is useful for anybody (I tried it even on a stock > redhat 6.1 system). It is a constant annoyance. I concurr. It has never worked for me either -- I just assumed that it had been working for someone, somewhere. If not having it working is a chronic problem, why not remove it altogether? Do any of the developers here find it genuinely useful? I'd much rather just have a core file and not run the risk of munging the stack (which seems to happen with this on the one or two occasions that I was running GIMP on a terminal and it crashed). After all, debugging the debugging mechanisms seems a waste of time, since such good ones exist on UNIX already. ---- The Tao is like a glob pattern: It is masked but always present. used but never used up. I don't know who built to it. It is like the extern void: It came before the first kernel. filled with infinite possibilities. [glyph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
