Re: [PATCH] Exception trace for i386

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 07:11:50 EST


On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:17:17PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> 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)

Yes, I had this idea too and it's already implemented for x86-64.

-Andi

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