On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:00:38PM -0700, Chad Simmons wrote: > > --- JF Bethlehem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a little program that will help me debug the mud, and remove > > several > > memory leaks i know are in there. I use gdb to debug the mud, *but* ever > > since i > > installed a threaded DNS lookup thing, core files aren't produced anymore, > > any > > idea how i can fix this? having to wait for a crash, which could occur once > > every.... > > 15 hours or so, is kinda tiresome. > > > > One thing you can do is ditch the whole "threaded" DNS lookup. Instead just > fork the mud when it boots up using socketpair or a pipe to communicate > between > the two. Then you can have one processes handle nameserver requests without > having to worry about threading. This will ensure that you still get a core > file when something crashes, and you can still debug.
Fix the problem, not the symptons. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | http://www.FatalDimensions.org/
