linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

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Message-ID: <20061118020200.GC31268@vanheusden.com>
Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:02:00 +0100
From:	Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

Hi,

> > I found that sometimes processes disappear on some heavily used system
> > of mine without any logging. So I've written a patch against 2.6.18.2
> > which emits logging when a process emits a fatal signal.
> Why not to patch default signal handlers in glibc, to have not only
> stderr, but syslog, or /dev/kmsg copy of fatal messages?

Afaik when a proces gets shot because of a segfault, also the libraries
it used are shot so to say. iirc some of the more fatal signals are
handled directly by the kernel.


Folkert van Heusden

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