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

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:43:28PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 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".

But this way the server state isn't saved for a second analysis.

> Or, you can just kill -SEGV <civserver_pid>, can't you? ;)

I can. Never thought of this.

        Raimar

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