Problem with 8.2.2-P5

[Kevin Darcy]

Mark.Andrews at iengines.com wrote:

> > Solaris bug or not, is a coredump an appropriate way to deal with the resulti
> > ng
> > error condition? How about detecting EINVAL and just exiting gracefully?
>
>         If it was a non-deliberate core dump I would agree with you.
>         It is a controlled core dump, deliberately provoked so that
>         we or anyone else that cares to look at the core can see the
>         state of the server at the time.

I appreciate the value of generating diagnostic info when encountering
"impossible" conditions, but it sounded like you folks already had a good handle
on what causes this one, which seems to render the coredumps rather gratuitous.
I hope you didn't take my quasi-rhetorical questions as a cheap shot: they were
meant to be constructive.

(In contrast, I have no problems whatsoever taking cheap shots at Sun :-)


- Kevin