Re: setting DDB_COMMANDONENTER="bt" by default

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 01:19:31 +0000, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
>
> > > I might/would suggest
> > >
> > >    OPTIONS DDB_ONPANIC=2
> >
> > clear, any reason not to have this as a default? (I'm going to sleep on it)
>
> As someone has already mentioned upthread, because printing a
> backtrace might cause another panic, so the default was selected to be
> on the safe(r) side.  At least that's what I recall.

Yes, that matches my recall as well.


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