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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:52:55 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: .CORE files
Message-ID:  <20011124005255.A1087@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123185020.030944e0@mail.enterit.com>
References:  <20011123182901.A529@prayforwind.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20011123185020.030944e0@mail.enterit.com>

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:55:03PM -0500, Jim Conner wrote:
> At 18:29 11.23.2001 -0500, Steve Brown wrote:
> 2. Netscape cores on probably everybody's machine at some time or 
> another.  It is usually the result of poor coding (on Netscape's part) and 
> sometimes its the result of a poorly admin'ed system.  In your case, I 
> would bet its netscapes code since I know a ton of people that get this 
> problem.  It could also be a poorly set up Netscape that could cause 
> cores.  Usually, the best thing to do is to remove the core file since its 
> really not needed for your sake.  OR, you could send the core dumps to 
> Netscape so that they can examine why the core happened which is the 
> purpose of core dumps anyway.  A core file is a physical readout of the 
> memory that netscape was using at the time it core'd.
> 
Nah, don't be whimp, debug netscape .. lol..it is only about 10,000,000
lines of code.
Netscape core dumps, hangs in strange ways, or just disappears on every
platform I have used it on. I think it just gets tired; or more likely
it's internal memory management is caboosh.

-- 
Regards
Cliff



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