[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] MSGTR_CoreDumped

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Mon May 9 13:04:30 CEST 2011


On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:33:06AM +0200, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> What's the point with the message
> 
>   #define MSGTR_CoreDumped "Core dumped ;)\n"
> 
> coming as an information after a stream has been dumped into a file?
> 
> I'm really into humor, but when I first got this message, I though something
> has gone horribly wrong. So far, I only knew "core dumps" from the Linux
> kernel.
> 
> Shouldn't we change it to avoid confusion?

I'm all for it, but you will soon see the trolls descend upon you
and prevent you from eliminating this very real usability problem.

Diego


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