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

["Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>]

On 5/21/07, Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> wrote:
> > >What about the following enhancement: I check with sig_fatal if it would
> > >kill the process and only then emit a message. So when an application
> > >takes care itself of handling it nothing is printed.
> > >+    /* emit some logging for unhandled signals
> > >+     */
> > >+    if (sig_fatal(t, sig))
> > Not unhandled_signal()?
>
> Can we already use that one in send_signal? As the signal needs to be
> send first I think before we know if it was handled or not? sig_fatal
> checks if the handler is set to default - which is it is not taken care
> of.
>
> > >+    {
> > if (sig_fatal(t, sig)) {
> > >+            printk(KERN_WARNING "Sig %d send to %d owned by %d.%d (%s)\n",
> > s/send/sent/;
> > >+            sig, t -> pid, t -> uid, t -> gid, t -> comm);
> > t->pid, t->uid, t->gid, t->comm);
>
>
> Description:
> This patch adds code to the signal-sender making it log a message when
> an unhandled fatal signal will be delivered.

Gargh ... why does this want to be in the *kernel*'s logs? In any case, can
you please make this KERN_INFO (or lower) instead of KERN_WARNING.
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