Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:06:41 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 04 May 2011, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > So how do you plan to detect bugs if you never enable a feature?
>
> Really abort()ing is not a nice behaviour, it would be way better to print
> a warning and fallback to a correct behaviour. Users can then report the
> problems without experiencing a non working-application.
For GUI applications a warning would amount to mostly not printing
anything, and as such the bug would not be detected by users. Of course
there's still .xsession-errors, but then just witness the amount of
stuff already reported there...
regards,
guillem
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