Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

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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