On 2006-11-18, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > 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? > Signed-off-by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- linux-2.6.18.2/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-04 02:33:58.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6.18.2.new/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-17 15:59:13.000000000 > +0100 > @@ -706,6 +706,15 @@ > struct sigqueue * q = NULL; > int ret = 0; > > + if (sig == SIGQUIT || sig == SIGILL || sig == SIGTRAP || > + sig == SIGABRT || sig == SIGBUS || sig == SIGFPE || > + sig == SIGSEGV || sig == SIGXCPU || sig == SIGXFSZ || > + sig == SIGSYS || sig == SIGSTKFLT) > + { > + printk(KERN_WARNING "Sig %d send to %d owned by %d.%d (%s)\n", > + sig, t -> pid, t -> uid, t -> gid, t -> comm); > + } > + > /* > * fast-pathed signals for kernel-internal things like SIGSTOP > * or SIGKILL. > > > Folkert van Heusden > > www.vanheusden.com/multitail - multitail is tail on steroids. multiple > windows, filtering, coloring, anything you can think of > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/