Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2003 22:42:37 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 04:10:30 +0800, Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org> said: > > Linux logs almost everything, why not exceptions such as SIGSEGV > > in userspace which may be very informative? > > [SIG_IGN]
Presumably only SIGSEGVs which kill a process would be logged...
Some programs actually _use_ SIGSEGV in a useful way, to manage memory. Same for SIGBUS and other signals. It would be wrong to log them.
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