Re: Denial of denial of service

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From: Andrew Black - lists
Subject: Re: Denial of denial of service
Date: 19:20 on 26 Jan 2007
Yossi Kreinin wrote:

> Incompetent exception handling (especially removing all useful context 
> information) deserves it's own hate. But what I find outrageous is that 
> /undefined behavior/, such as access violations, is silently ignored. 
> Ignoring exceptions is idiotic; ignoring undefined behavior is criminal.

I once wrote what I hope was a fairly competent exception handler. Put 
out useful info about what the program was trying to do, where it was ...

The users of this API thought it was too verbose so wrapped it with 
another exception handler that send "Unknown error Z999 - please contact 
system support".  Quite what system support where supposed to do, as I 
expect they lacked the requisite telepathy.

So next release  I sent the useful bumph to a text file.
There's stuff above here

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