From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:27:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03081908270500.01226@tabby> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bhs2sb$3fd$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
On Monday 18 August 2003 21:43, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKEEBAFDAA.davids@webmaster.com>
> By author: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > There is no mechanism that is guaranteed to terminate a process other
> > than sending yourself an exception that is not caught. So in cases where
> > you must guarantee that your process terminates, it is perfectly
> > reasonable to send yourself a SIGILL.
>
> exit(2)?
>
> -hpa
Nope... A monitoring process must send the exit to a different thread... which
may be being directed to generate a core dump.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-16 20:10 Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged Michael Frank
2003-08-16 20:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-16 21:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-16 23:06 ` David D. Hagood
2003-08-16 23:17 ` Doug McNaught
2003-08-16 23:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-08-17 8:17 ` Russell King
2003-08-16 23:49 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-17 20:54 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-08-18 4:28 ` Michael Frank
2003-08-18 9:15 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-19 2:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-19 13:27 ` Jesse Pollard [this message]
2003-08-19 19:28 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-19 19:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-19 20:01 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-18 14:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-18 17:52 ` Michael Frank
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[not found] ` <lv8Y.2XU.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <lviD.35d.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <lviD.35d.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <lvC1.3p9.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-17 14:29 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-08-18 1:56 Hank Leininger
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2003-08-17 12:43 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-08-17 12:52 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-17 13:09 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <lOll.3Jp.19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-18 9:34 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-18 17:26 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-18 20:50 Hank Leininger
2003-08-18 21:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-18 21:18 ` Hank Leininger
2003-08-18 21:25 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-18 22:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-18 22:39 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-18 22:44 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-08-18 22:53 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-19 6:54 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-08-19 14:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-19 18:51 ` David Schwartz
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