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- From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.085832.7382@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Summary: Coredump replaced by Guru
- Keywords: coredump, guru
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:58:32 GMT
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- In article <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >
- >Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX?
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- Because it gives you a nice guru telling you the Why and the Where
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- >Why do they instead crash messily and reset?
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- Because its not guarantied that your data is safe.
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- >Basically, I'm asking.. what allows a
- >UNIX to coredump, and relativeily, what does Amiga LACK that won't let
- >it coredump w/o crashing?
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- It doesnt lack nothing, it was a design decision of the OS to do this.
- (But MP wold be usefull)
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- Bye
- Matija
- >Sam Hulick | "You can't discover new oceans unless you have the
- >shulick@indiana.edu | courage to lose sight of the shore." --Anon.
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- Best regards from Matija Milostinik : matija@avalon.ifi.unizh.ch
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