Re: [patch] log fatal signals like SIGSEGV

From: Bernd Eckenfels
Date: Sun Sep 21 2008 - 15:15:26 EST


In article <18646.39701.819497.337394@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> Applications that handle SEGV/BUS/ILL/FPE aren't that uncommon.

JRE uses SIGSEGV for (expected) NullPointers. So you might see a lot of
those on the logs. However: not in all cases you dont want to log handled
(fatal) signals. Not sure how to detect those. Maybe it is better to fix
applications and remove their home grown crash logging.

Gruss
Bernd
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