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Re: backtrace semantics
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:26 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
>> Don't sound so defeatist. If you really want to be
>> different try coming up with some creative counter
>> arguments? :-)
>>
>> As a user *I* want to see all the frames from the point
>> at which the function call occurs. It seems most
>> logical to me that the frame I'm in should be included.
>
> You don't know what function you're in when you make the backtrace()
> call? :-)
At the time I wrote the code, probably, by the time I've spent
several days debugging, probably not. :-)
> That's my argument for not including it.
It's actually a decent argument, but by not being the expected
behaviour it's less than useful to our users.
Cheers,
Carlos.