Re: Crash recovery strategies

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem is that displaying a GUI dialog box requires re-entering the
> main event loop, which I think risks too much undefined behavior. A separate
> process sidesteps the problem.

It does do that. But maybe this is better as a v2 feature. Let's try just
prompting before shutdown first.

> The code that bothers me is the code that longjmps *out* of the sigsegv
> handler that catches stack overflow. The handler being there is fine. Under
> my proposed scheme, we won't longjmp out of the handler unless the user
> tells us to do that.

OK, that's easy enough to understand. I'll let Eli and Paul weigh in now
before continuing.

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