Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@debian.org> writes: > * But if it ever fails due to a bug within it, $DEITY help you, because > you're going to have to go through everything mentioned in your first > point here (save the issues with getting patches accepted)
Sometimes, debugging can be easier in monolithic systems. It depends on how they're build. One advantage of a monolithic system is that you can design a tracing facility into it from the start and have all components trace in the same way, which means that debugging is often just a matter of enabling tracing and then seeing where things blew up. It really depends. I've occasionally tracked down obscure problems in traditional UNIX environments to bugs in the shell, and problems like that are quite difficult to find. Sometimes, people use UNIX tools to build nice, elegant, comprehensible systems with clear interfaces that are a pleasure to debug. Sometimes you get configure scripts. :) Nothing but bog-standard UNIX tools there! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871udb9lje....@windlord.stanford.edu
