Re: [RFC, PATCH] signals: print_fatal_signal: fix the signr"calculation"

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Mar 09 2008 - 07:06:12 EST



* Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure print-fatal-signals was really ever intended for
> non-coredump signals. It doesn't seem like it would be all that
> useful. It's probably even undesireable for every normal C-c killing
> something to cause a printk.

correct. We used to have them for SIGKILL but even that was confusing to
users - so the intent very much is to only have them for truly
unexpected, non-user generated and 'fatal', coredump-generating signals.

Ingo
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