From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nix Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The emacs_backtrace "feature" Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:01:18 +0100 Message-ID: <874nmolaht.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> References: <83lig3yaci.fsf@gnu.org> <505CC1FA.4070300@cs.ucla.edu> <83fw6akz67.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4psopo9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ehlso7uj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348434106 19867 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2012 21:01:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 23:01:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TFtJD-0003Ap-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:01:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58302 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFtJ8-0005Sg-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFtJ6-0005SW-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFtJ6-0001yJ-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:54378 helo=mail.esperi.org.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFtJ4-0001sl-F3; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from spindle.srvr.nix (nix@spindle.srvr.nix [192.168.14.15]) by mail.esperi.org.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8NL1IET023874; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:01:18 +0100 Emacs: it's like swatting a fly with a supernova. In-Reply-To: <87ehlso7uj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:30:12 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-wuwien-Metrics: spindle 1290; Body=5 Fuz1=5 Fuz2=5 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 81.187.191.129 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153499 Archived-At: On 23 Sep 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull verbalised: > Andreas Schwab writes: > > > If it's so important to get core dumps then Emacs could just enable them > > itself. > > And distros will likely just turn them right off again. Those that aren't redirecting them through a piped program (which is most of them) -- in which case the coredump ulimit has no effect at all, except if consulted by that program. -- NULL && (void)