Re: core dump with svn r6178

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:58:15PM -0400, Brandon Ehle wrote:
>
> >
> >Different projects have different conventions for this. In
> >Subversion, we seem to have decided that it's okay for code to seg
> >fault in "can't happen" situations, because if the can't-happen ever
> >*does* happen, it's a bug we must fix anyway :-). A verbose error and
> >exit would only be marginally friendlier to the user -- it wouldn't
> >really get them any closer to a completed operation than the seg fault
> >does.
> >
> >
> The only problem with a seg fault is that many users won't be running on
> OS's that generate core dumps and don't have the time or resources to
> track down an "Exception Occured at 0xABACADBA", but they could easily
> cut and paste a verbose error message into an email pretty easily.
>
Hmm, this conversation has made me wonder what collab.net needs to do in order
to get Watson reports for svn reported to them. I know its possible, but I
don't know what the procedure is.

I'll try to look into it.

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