Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] signals causing coredumps | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:19:39 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > 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?
Well, it doesn't on my system:
/home/wolff> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1k & [1] 14276 /home/wolff> kill -URG %1 /home/wolff> kill -URG %1 /home/wolff> kill -URG %1 /home/wolff> kill -URG %1 /home/wolff> kill -URG %1 /home/wolff> kill -INT %1 /home/wolff> 3960638+0 records in 3960637+0 records out
[1] Interrupt dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1k /home/wolff> cat /proc/version Linux version 2.2.14pre1 (wolff@cave) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP Sat Oct 30 11:59:50 MEST 1999 /home/wolff>
Roger.
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