Re: /tmp/.ICE-unix
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>
- Cc: Seth Aaron Nickell <snickell Stanford EDU>, Alan Cox <alan redhat com>, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: /tmp/.ICE-unix
- Date: 17 Sep 2001 00:24:55 -0400
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:
> A filesystem condition should never be an assertion failure. It should
> always result in an error message explaining what's wrong, and ideally
> how to fix it (possibly followed by exiting if the error is not
> recoverable, although it's better to degrade gracefully or fix the
> problem). The filesystem should be considered untrusted external data.
Agreed, the point is that it's a bug, not something we remotely expect
to happen. The bug is in the whole system though (e.g. the OS
distribution), so probably not an internal consistency failure for
gnome-session.
Havoc
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