Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged

[Jamie Lokier]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 04:10:30 +0800, Michael Frank <mhf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  said:
> > Linux logs almost everything, why not exceptions such as SIGSEGV
> > in userspace which may be very informative?
> 
> [SIG_IGN]

Presumably only SIGSEGVs which kill a process would be logged...

Some programs actually _use_ SIGSEGV in a useful way, to manage memory.
Same for SIGBUS and other signals.  It would be wrong to log them.

-- Jamie
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