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

[rider <mr.qweo%gmail.com@localhost>]

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

From: rider <mr.qweo%gmail.com@localhost>
To: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/42322: ext2fs support incomplete enough for a core dump or 
        two
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:14:04 -0200

 On 23/11/2009, David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:  >
 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.
 The programs involved were these shipped with NetBSD 5.0.1 release
 back then.  > > It is in general a lot faster and more productive
 to report what you > did and what happened as a result.  Well, I've
 got a dirty journaled Second Extended FS, then executed fsck_ext2fs(8)
 on it (without any options IIRC) and it dumped core.  Then I executed
 vi(1) on another journaled SE FS and *it* dumped core :-) Then
 still, I executed fdisk(8) on an MBR-labeled disk, modified the
 partition table, and on writing, the thing dumped core too.