back trace when a SIGSEGV

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Dec 5 12:23:56 EST 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 17:20 -0800, Dustin Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > You don't need to play the cop on this list, nobody appointed you to
> > that position.
> 
> Fair enough.  But do you think my reply, over all, was unreasonable?[1] I 
> made an attempt to answer his question, pointing out two of the most 
> useful resources.  I also told him that his question wasn't really suited 
> to the list - I would have listed some better resources but I'm not 
> familiar with any - but I tried to write a balanced, 
> gentle-push-in-the-right-direction, sort of message.  Re-reading the 
> snippet you highlighted, it does sound rude.  It wasn't meant to be. 
> (Roberto, please accept my apologies!)

The s/n ratio of this list is good enough to make such occasional
questions acceptable.

Ben.





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