Re: [PATCH] Exception trace for i386

Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Tue, 20 May 2003 13:17:17 +0200


On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:21:42PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I especially like it being a global option. It has catched bugs on x86-64
> that were never noticed before (e.g. subprocesses silently segfaulting
> that nobody noticed doing the same on i386). Clearly it's an debugging
> thing and you definitely want an option to turn it off. But having
> the global option is useful.

Would you consider doing the logging only, if the process has no
real handler for that? (so it's blocking, ignoring or not caring
about this signal)

This will reveal only the bugs and not disturb the applications,
which do sth. useful with segfaults.

Regards

Ingo Oeser
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