[15113] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.0K: ez
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Apr 25 18:55:09 1997
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 18:55:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: klynch@MIT.EDU
Cc: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199704241902.PAA05898@megara.MIT.EDU>
Dear Ken:
I am sorry you were inconvenienced by EZ dumping core on you.
I am doubly sorry that this happened at all, much less twice in three days.
The regretable consequence of operating programs that were written in C
is that sometimes internal errors in the program are only discovered
when the program core dumps during use by an end-user such as yourself.
Since ez died twice in three days, it seems to me that there may well be
some perfectly reasonable thing that you are doing that tickles a bug.
It is unfortunate that you supplied me only with the information that it
died. Without more information, I am powerless to help you further.
You say that it left a core behind. Did you save it somewhere? Can I
look at it?
Can you tell me ANYTHING about what you were doing when it died? EZ has
SO many functions inside, that finding a needle in a haystack is a
TRIVIAL problem compared to guessing what you might have been doing.
I hope that EZ does not mis-behave for you again.
But if it does, I am here to help if you are able to provide me with the
information I need to do so.
-wdc
