Re: [PATCH] signals causing coredumps

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:19:27 +0100 (MET)


From zippel@fh-brandenburg.de Mon Nov 15 13:46:09 1999

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> The Single Unix Spec v2 specifies for 10 signals that they terminate
> the process and cause a coredump.
> (Or, to quote more carefully: "Implementation-defined abnormal
> termination actions, such as creation of a core file, may occur".)

There is more, the standard also says that SIGURG should be ignored by
default and currently generates a core dump.

Hmm. Does it? What kernel version, what architecture?

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