Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

From: Oleg Verych
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 00:41:07 EST


On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:48:59PM -0500, Marty Leisner wrote:
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> > This is a user-space issue, not kernel (carrying this forward, we can
> say the "kernel should complain when programs have bugs").
>
> Newer glibc has catchsegv (haven't found any documentation, but its
> interesting) --

It's just LD_PRELOAD (man ld.so) and libSegFault.so, which installs
(among others) SIGSEGV handler, see "glibc/sysdeps/generic/segfault.c".
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