[Freeciv-Dev] Re: console cleanup 3 (PR#1749)

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:58:20PM CEST, I got a letter,
where Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:52:28AM -0700, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:08:20PM -0700, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > > > This is a reversal of my previous console cleanup patch from December.
> > > > Instead of fixing rfcstyle, it nixes it. Along with the bathwater goes 
> > > > the
> > > > remaining "undocumented" commands "log" and "crash" as well. Also,
> > >
> > > I used crash in the past. It should stay.
> > 
> > Ok. But can you explain to me how crash is useful? This eludes me.
> 
> If you want to inspect some server state you can either add freelogs
> or crash the server and use gdb. The latter is useful if you want/have
> to work interactive.

You can attach gdb to running civserver process, and it's even better as you've
the civserver still "alive". Or, you can just kill -SEGV <civserver_pid>, can't
you? ;)

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