[IRCServices Coding] DUMPCORE only unhandles SIGSEGV?

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sat Jul 12 03:38:01 PDT 2003


     (1) Not everyone thinks the same way you do and (2) just use GDB on
the process and ^C it.

>On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 03:19:34 JST, Andrew Church <achurch at achurch.org> 
>wrote:
>
>> SIGFPE only happens on divide by zero, and in the few places where
>> Services divides by a variable the variable is already tested for being
>> nonzero.  SIGQUIT is user-generated.  SIGABRT isn't generated at all.
>> SIGILL only occurs if your compiler is broken or you run a binary 
>> compiled
>> for the wrong CPU.
>
>As an alternate way to reply to this, if someone uses SIGQUIT on a process,
>it's because they WANT it to dump core (otherwise they would use SIGTERM
>or SIGKILL), so why make it do otherwise?
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