Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

Miloslav Trmač mitr at volny.cz
Mon Nov 15 22:07:11 UTC 2010


Matthew Garrett píše v Po 15. 11. 2010 v 22:04 +0000: 
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > > How does the user verify that there are no passwords or other personal
> > > information in the core dump?
> > 
> > I don't think it really works to ask the user to do that in practice
> > (though I'm not going to go scanning through bugzilla to try to prove
> > the point).  It would work out better to:
> 
> Leaving the retracing at the user's end of things means that the user at 
> least has a choice in the matter - I'm unlikely to submit any firefox 
> crashes if I don't have an opportunity to look at what's in the 
> backtrace. We can make symbols available for local tracing without 
> forcing the user to download the entirity of the debuginfo, and that 
> would seem a more reasonable approach.
Don't we need the entirety of debuginfo in order to be able to include
parameter and local variable values in the backtrace?
Mirek



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