Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261268AbTHSTbG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:31:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261317AbTHST3m (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:29:42 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:56575 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261300AbTHST2X (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:28:23 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Subject: RE: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:28:19 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 24 > > There is no mechanism that is guaranteed to terminate a > > process other than > > sending yourself an exception that is not caught. So in cases > > where you must > > guarantee that your process terminates, it is perfectly > > reasonable to send > > yourself a SIGILL. > exit(2)? And what if a registered 'atexit' function needs to acquire a mutex that is held by a thread that's in an endless loop? What if a standard I/O stream has buffered data for a local disk that failed? I'm looking for a mechanism that is guaranteed to terminate a process immediately. DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/