> >My experience has taught me that the best way to keep defects from
> >piling up in the development cycle (which is where tools like
> >DIAGASSERT are most useful) is to make detected bugs *hurt* (and cause
> >the program to abort and dump core);
> 
> ISTR Luke saying something about not wanting to have critical programs dump
> core on him.  One possible solution is to fork() and let the child dump core.

No, this completely misses the point.  

					- Bill