Problem with 8.2.2-P5

[Mark.Andrews at iengines.com]

> Mark.Andrews at iengines.com wrote:
> 
> > > Solaris bug or not, is a coredump an appropriate way to deal with the res
> ulti
> > > 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 han
> dle
> on what causes this one, which seems to render the coredumps rather gratuitou
> s.
> I hope you didn't take my quasi-rhetorical questions as a cheap shot: they we
> re
> meant to be constructive.

	No.  I just put two and two together and came up with four.

	It's more a matter of trying to remember all the subtle changes
	from one OS release to another.  The INSIST() that caught this has
	caught other bugs in the past.

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