Stripped binaries
Software vendors: please stop shipping stripped binaries. How do you expect to support your customers without this valuable information when something goes wrong?
Tags: debugging, linux, stripped
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[...] user land calls. By default Ubuntu packages are shipped with all the binaries stripped which has upset some people I know. The Ubuntu devs are clearly not stupid and provide some debugging aids, not [...]
Here here. Userland fbt probes in dtrace would become useful if we stopped stripping the binaries. Also adding CTF would also help when things go wrong and with the current cost of memory and disk at zero cost compared to the bloat that is on the heap.