linux-kernel - Re: [patch] log fatal signals like SIGSEGV

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Date:	Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:15:09 +0200
From:	Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] log fatal signals like SIGSEGV

In article <18646.39701.819497.337394@...po.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.

Gruss
Bernd
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