On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > Well, abnormal termination results in abnormal consequences. You expect > garbage to get left behind of a program crashes, so I wouldn't really worry > about that too much. If you really wanted to you can register chained > handlers > for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS/etc to catch those conditions, but honestly, that seems > like > overkill. If a program that uses shared resources terminates abnormally, its > well understood that those shared resources may not get released properly, and > manual intervention is required to clean them up > > Neil
Perhaps true. But also one of the top irritations with POSIX SHMEM. ;)