Re: Dumb question: Why are exceptions such as SIGSEGV not logged

[Hank Leininger]

On 2003-08-16, Michael Frank <mhf () linuxmail ! org> wrote:

> Linux logs almost everything, why not exceptions such as SIGSEGV in
> userspace which may be very informative?

If you really want this, patches to do so have been in hap-linux (2.2.x)
for a while, and they were picked up by grsecurity (2.4).  We both log 
SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABRT, SIGILL currently; you could add others if you
desired.  The logging is rate-limited to reduce log-flood opportunities
(though as others have mentioned it's quite easy to flood logs through
other means).

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Hank Leininger <hlein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
  
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