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

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 13:52, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
>      "When  called  with the name of an existing file as argument, 
> ccounting is turned on, records for each  terminating  process  are 
> appended  to filename as it terminates.  An argument of NULL causes 
> accounting to be turned off".
> 
>      I do not see how it relates to abends.
>      It logs _everything_, what is not that useful. Having some kind of 
> filter what to log - whould be just great. Or alternatively ability to 
> pass file descriptor - not file name.

It generates a small record for each exit, its trivial to parse the exit
codes for exits caused by an exception.

>      Sounds like acct() does reverse? No crashes are logged.
>      Or it is about Linux crash?

Linux crash

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