John Alton Tamplin wrote: > > Oliver Pitzeier wrote: > > >Sorry, but I believe there are enough interessting parts in imapd and also in > >some lib/* file that could be logged for debugging reasons... > > > > > Complaints about the code quality of Cyrus coming from someone who tries > to pass an int where a char* is expected, whose patch results in > returning random garbage from the comparison function, and who can't > produce a stack backtrace from the problem seems a bit out of place. > > The purpose of the syslog logging is not to output every possible thing > you might want to look at while debugging a code problem, but rather to > output helpful information at various levels on a running production > system to report that there is a problem or to trace how something is > being handled (at the debug levels). When I want to debug an actual > problem such as the core dump you refer to, I run the program under a > debugger or at least investigate the core dump with a debugger.
Nicely phrased. Thank you. -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
