Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:27:05 -0500 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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