On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:20:36PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > > + switch(sig) {
> > > + case SIGQUIT:
> > > + case SIGILL:
> > > + case SIGTRAP:
> > > + case SIGABRT:
> > > + case SIGBUS:
> > > + case SIGFPE:
> > > + case SIGSEGV:
> > > + case SIGXCPU:
> > > + case SIGXFSZ:
> > > + case SIGSYS:
> > > + case SIGSTKFLT:
> >
> > Unconditional? That's definitely a very bad idea. If anything only unhandled
> > signals should be printed this way because some programs use them
> > internally.
>
> Use these signals internally? Afaik these are fatal, stopping the
> process. So using them internally would be a little tricky.
All of them are catchable.
>
> > But I think your list is far too long anyways.
>
> So, which ones would you like to have removed then?
SIGFPE at least and the accounting signals are dubious too. SIGQUIT can
be also relatively common.
-Andi
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