Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: prctl patch for fpu faults

David Mosberger
2001-10-10T22:27:42Z

>>>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:59:36 -0500 (CDT), Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said:

Jack> There should be a way a site can change the default logging
Jack> behavior & have it apply to ALL tasks..

I agree. In theory, if you can change the behavior of "init", you'll
change the behavior of all subsequent tasks (the settings are
inherited across fork). If you're willing to hack /etc/inittab, you
could probably do that with the "prctl" utility today (or perhaps even
with prctl + a suitable kernel command line), but none of these
solutions seem to be very pretty. Perhaps someone can come up with a
cleaner solution?

--david