[PATCH-V4] xserver: Optional backtrace handler

[Simon Farnsworth]

On Wednesday 12 October 2011, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>  2. I'd love to figure out how to fork at the time of the error; this
>     would encourage people to actually use this option regularly.
>
A question - what is it about preforking a backtrace handler that you think
will put people off using it?

Our backtrace handler, for example, is a small bash script, taking around
5MB of VM, and around 1M RES, 900kB SHR according to top. It's got a nice
clear name in ps output, and it's thus obvious what's going on.
-- 
Simon Farnsworth
Software Engineer
ONELAN Limited
http://www.onelan.com/