[DGD] Segmentation Fault

[Felix A. Croes]

Thomas Conner Annandale <gte829m at prism.gatech.edu> wrote:

> I've been having seg faults (and lost data) due to kfun extensions that
> I've written.  Do you think you could make dgd install a signal handler
> for SIGSEGV that makes it output a dump file when a crash occurs?  Or is
> there a way to do this already?

This is a bad idea.  Any data in a dump generated when the server crashes
is necessarily suspect.  Munged data may lurk in your statedump and kill
your mud sometime, and it will never outdo a core dump for debugging.

Regards,
Dworkin
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