Roland Mainz wrote: > Erm... who or what defines "fatal" ? Even SIGSEGV can be caught within > applications (either using alternative stacks or a seperate thread > (assuming I don't mix-up things again...)) and is not fatal...
I don't know for sure, but I think you just answered your own question. If caught, it's not fatal. If not caught, it's fatal. I assume that the decision is at its lowest level "are the low-order 8 bits of the exit code that would be returned by wait(2) non-zero?". That is, the the process die as the result of an uncaught signal?
