From ee7e184e269aa05132a9b880d267d91865d6ffb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:38:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] slightly extended to mention that -v and -i are good options to use when reporting bugs --- docs/BUGS | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/BUGS b/docs/BUGS index 8b6fefd3a..e55f8d306 100644 --- a/docs/BUGS +++ b/docs/BUGS @@ -23,11 +23,16 @@ BUGS When reporting a bug, you should include information that will help us understand what's wrong, what you expected to happen and how to repeat the - bad behaviour. You therefore need to supply your operating system's name and + bad behavior. You therefore need to supply your operating system's name and version number (uname -a under a unix is fine), what version of curl you're using (curl -V is fine), what URL you were working with and anything else you think matters. + Since curl deals with networks, it often helps us a lot if you include a + protocol debug dump with your bug report. The output you get by using the -v + flag. Usually, you also get more info by using -i so that is likely to be + useful when reporting bugs as well. + If curl crashed, causing a core dump (in unix), there is hardly any use to send that huge file to anyone of us. Unless we have an exact same system setup as you, we can't do much with it. What we instead ask of you is to get @@ -36,8 +41,7 @@ BUGS The address and how to subscribe to the mailing list is detailed in the MANUAL file. - How To Get A Stack Trace - ======================== +HOW TO GET A STACK TRACE First, you must make sure that you compile all sources with -g and that you don't 'strip' the final executable. Try to avoid optimizing the code as