[4406] in testers
Re: See Netscape. See Netscape crash. Crash, Netscape, crash!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed May 31 15:42:01 2000
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:41:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
cc: The guy named after an Om Kalthoum song <ocschwar@mit.edu>,
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We could, but I am frankly not sure the effort is justified as long as any
bugs we report to Netscape fall into a black hole - which is the
case. Open to discussion though.
On Wed, 31 May 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:
> | The famous Netscape bus error. Unfortunately we do not have a solution for
> | this, short of convincing Netscape to make a better product (or building
> | our own). The bug happens regularly on all Athena Unix platforms and has
> | for at least four or five years. It is not AFAIK related to Athena version
> | in any way.
>
> Todd:
>
> Is there any reason to believe that these are the same error?
> Shouldn't we at least garner stacktraces to at least differentiate
> between different problems, and have some idea of the code area,
> and whether it was a problem in an OS shared library or in netscape code?
>
> --jhawk
>
