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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] Panic behaviour.. create core image?</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu Sep 25 15:13:07 1997
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From: Foxen/Revar &lt;foxen@best.com&gt;
To: brandon@roguetrader.com (Brandon Gillespie)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:00:46 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;Pine.BSF.3.96.970925100924.10426A-100000@roguetrader.com&gt; from "Brandon Gillespie" at Sep 25, 97 10:10:25 am

&gt; 
&gt; Just curious, I'm considering changing the behaviour of panic, so after it
&gt; safely makes a dump of the database it sends SEGV to itself, to create a
&gt; core image dump--which can later be analized.
&gt; 
&gt; Any comments in this regard?  If people dont like it they can just set
&gt; coredumpsize to zero..
&gt; 
&gt; -Brandon
&gt; 
&gt; 

You might want to use the more standard abort() function, that raises a
SIGABRT signal and closes all open file descriptors.  Otherwise, the
effects are pretty much the same, including dumping core.  Most of the
TinyMUD derived servers do it this way.

	- Foxen/Revar

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