[Freeciv-Dev] Re: core file on civserver, http://civserver.freeciv.org/games/162970

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > The backtraces generated from such asserts are usually useless
>
> I agree.
>
> > , while the errors are often recoverable if they didn't assert. Much
> > better to output some useful error logging, IMHO.
>
> We had this discussion (die or recover) in the past. I'm against doing
> this in CVS HEAD

When we had this discussion in the past - we agreed that the importance of
catching and fixing bugs was more important than recovery. However, in
this case, it doesn't let us fix any bugs, so what is the point in killing
the server?

Losing a game due to a server that dies should only be acceptable if the
player who is playing this game can go to us with the core file and get
the bug fixed. Then he/she may feel that it has gotten better and the loss
of the game was not so bad after all. However, when our response is only a
shrug - then that is doubly aggrevating.

  - Per