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

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Message-ID: <20061121054743.GA1282@flower.upol.cz>
Date:	Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:47:43 +0000
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	Marty Leisner <linux@...hester.rr.com>
Cc:	Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:48:59PM -0500, Marty Leisner wrote:
[]
> > This is a user-space issue, not kernel (carrying this forward, we can
> say the "kernel should complain when programs have bugs").
> 
> Newer glibc has catchsegv (haven't found any documentation, but its
> interesting) --

It's just LD_PRELOAD (man ld.so) and libSegFault.so, which installs
(among others) SIGSEGV handler, see "glibc/sysdeps/generic/segfault.c".
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