On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:30:38 -0400
Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajja...@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:35 AM, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:39:16 +0200
> > Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> > +    signal(SIGSEGV, sigterm_handler); /* Segmentation fault (ANSI).     
> >> > */
> >> > +    signal(SIGILL , sigterm_handler); /* Invalid instruction (ANSI).    
> >> > */
> >> > +    signal(SIGFPE , sigterm_handler); /* Arithmetic error (ANSI).       
> >> > */
> >>
> >> NO!!!
> >>
> >> When a crash happens, we want it to happen right there, possibly leave a
> >> core. We do not want a signal handler to mess up the remains.
> >
> > +1
> >
> >> >  #ifdef SIGXCPU
> >> >      signal(SIGXCPU, sigterm_handler);
> >> >  #endif
> >
> > Why?
> 
> Not sure; note this was not added by me.
> From Kerrisk's "Linux Programming Interface" book,
> SIGXCPU is raised when CPU limit is exceeded.
> It is a Linux thing, relevant when RLIMIT_CPU is set.

You shouldn't just copy paste things you don't understand.
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