Re: Is it really necessary for fatal() to dump core?

Patch at:
   http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2673

On 19/05/2009, at 1:50 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> tools.c:fatal() dumps core because it calls abort.
>
> Considering that the core can be quite large (esp. on a 64bit
> system), and that there's fatal_dump() as well if you really want
> one, can we just make fatal() exit(1) instead of abort()ing?
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Mark Nottingham mnot_at_yahoo-inc.com
>
>

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