Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:40:37 +0200 | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: [patch] log fatal signals like SIGSEGV |
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Bernd Eckenfels writes: > In article <18646.39701.819497.337394@harpo.it.uu.se> you wrote: > > Applications that handle SEGV/BUS/ILL/FPE aren't that uncommon. > > JRE uses SIGSEGV for (expected) NullPointers. So you might see a lot of > those on the logs. However: not in all cases you dont want to log handled > (fatal) signals. Not sure how to detect those. Maybe it is better to fix > applications and remove their home grown crash logging.
I was referring to applications that properly handle these signals, e.g. by emulation, fixing up fault-causing conditions, or turning faults into application-level exceptions.
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