Messages in this thread | | | From | Manish Katiyar <> | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:36:19 -0800 | Subject | Re: process exception |
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Sri Ram Vemulpali <sri.ram.gmu06@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is regarding segment fault. Is there any feature that we can > allow kernel to kill only the thread that generate seg fault rather > than killing whole process in which it is running. Why is that we did > not implement in such way. Is there any specific reason. Thanks in > advance for explanation.
What is the guarantee that whole process isn't hosed up ? For example let's say a global pointer became NULL and we died accessing it from 1 of the threads. I'm not sure if it would be better to have 'N' coredumps as opposed to just 1.
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