Re: bin/42322: ext2fs support incomplete enough for a core dump or two

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/42322; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
mr.qweo%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/42322: ext2fs support incomplete enough for a core dump or
        two
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:57:08 +0000

 On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 01:35:02PM +0000, rider wrote:
  >  >  Well, it's better to mention what each actual
  >  >  problem you get on what command per each command,
  >  >  i.e. what command you typed and what result what you got
  >  >  rather than personal impressions in a problem report.
  >  
  >  I'd rather upload the dumps if there's some one inerested
  >  enough to host it (I've got handful of technical difficulties
  >  now, so I can't really host these, nor I can mail them.)
 
 Core dumps themselves are not very useful without the exact program
 image that generated them, and even then they still aren't very useful
 unless the program was compiled with debug information.
 
 It is in general a lot faster and more productive to report what you
 did and what happened as a result.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost