Re: What is a crash?

On 2026-08-17 09:00, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> Instead of haggling over the definition of "Crash", maybe we should
> create explicit categories for the kinds of fifth wall breakage we want
> to see treated separately?

In another message sent around the same time as yours, I suggested,

     I could create a new label ("Error" or whatever you'd
     prefer) for non-crash error handling: false positives,
     false negatives, confusing messages, etc.  I'm not a
     fan of having many labels, but if people would want to
     search for such issues in a category apart from "Defect",
     then it would be useful.

I would like to be able to search for OS termination issues apart from 
unhandled Scheme exceptions.  You said that you consider unhandled 
Scheme exceptions crashes.  That's fine, but a person labeling issues 
needs to know whether you want to be able to search for them as a 
distinct category.  What do you think of this?

| Error::OS     | a segfault, out-of-memory crash, etc.    |
| Error::Scheme | an unhandled Scheme exception            |
| Error::Other  | an error reported through the lilypond
                   diagnostics layer or a false negative    |
| Defect        | "a problem in the core program" (as now) |

-- 
Dan