Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
> <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > If a process crashes I'm probably going to *want* those files as they
> > > are pertinent to the state of the software at the time of crash.
> >
> >
> > If software crashes, we have pretty good debuggers to detect such issues.
>
> Not only that, logs don't go in /tmp. Logs go in /var/log.

I did not say or mean "logs". I meant "files" - in this case,
temporary files that can provide insight into the cause of failure.
temporary files are by definition part of the running state of the
software, and if software crashes (and provides a core file) the
contents of those temporary files may be critical in determining the
ultimate cause of the failure.  I don't care if it's the default to
wipe away temporary files but it does need to be something that can be
turned off without a lot of difficulty.



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Jon
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