Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: core files from multithreaded apps (fwd) | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 09 May 1997 20:11:09 -0400 |
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Jason Burrell <jburrell@crl5.crl.com> writes:
> A program screws up and manages to generate, say, a SIGILL. It goes to the > signal handler. The program hasn't trapped it, so it passes to the libc > default handler. That default handler generates a coredump and blows the > process away.
The default handler is in the kernel, not libc.
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