Re: Call for constructive user criticism.

[Kent Perrier <kent perrier pgs com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> The core files were 95% because anytime Gtk lost the X connection it used
> to call abort(), resulting in a core dump. So if you exit X, all the apps
> lose their connection and you get the big pile o' core. This is fixed in
> the most recent Gtk 1.2.x release, I believe. It's not indicative of
> application bugs.
> 
> The other 5% of the core is just bugs, and yes we're fixing those. :-)
> (You can always ulimit -c to restrict corefile size to 0 if you simply
> don't want to see corefiles.)
> 

That is not a real solution.  In general, core files should be generated
to show
that there is a problem that needs to be fixed.  The real solution is to
have an 
error handler for the problem.  It looks like, with the Gtk 1.2 release,
that 
most of them have been fixed.  Maybe I can start using gnome again.

Kent
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