Re: SIGSEGV a bug or a feature?

From: Wolfram Roesler <wr_at_spam.la>
Date: 4 Feb 2004 16:33:03 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns9485B2899FE35wrgrpde@130.133.1.4>

Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj_at_daarligstil.dk> wrote in news:slrnc1uoso.9i0.apj_at_slartibartfast.nerd.dk:

> My only problem is: Oracle won't acknowledge that this is a bug. The
> claim is: This is an application sending us bad data, so we don't see a
> problem in handling this with a server-side crash (which gives the
> client a nice EOF on communications channel, but no good error message).
>
> So, what's your take on this? Isn't this a bug in Oracle? Should ANY
> invalid data be able to crash the Oracle process it's connected to?

In the software we write, any crash - no matter what input caused it - is considered a bug that needs to be fixed. Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 10:33:03 CST