The application may come back. I think sending SEGV to it, while solving this problem by pushing it through the traditionally crash handler, is ultimately overkill.
I'm happy to hear arguments that we really should be killing these hanging processes though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006398 Title: Bypassing ptrace restrictions for errors from hanging applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie-daisy/+bug/1006398/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
