On 5/1/18 7:55 PM, Andrei Vagin wrote:
>> If it's not obvious, I'm trying to determine whether making this change
>> will add any more value than simply exiting (perhaps with a particular
>> exit status).
>
> It will add more value. Without this changes, we will not know whether a
> bach process crashed or exited. If it will not generate a core dump after
> a crash, the tools like abrtd, coredumpd, etc will not detect this crash
> and will not report about this abnormal behaviour.
OK, we'll try it. I'll be interested to see if any core dumps created by
causing a SIGSEGV will overwrite any stack information from the `real'
fatal signal.
Thanks for the patch.
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