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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] catch signals


From: Daniel P. Berrange
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] catch signals
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:00:48 +0100
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:53:21PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange, le Tue 05 Aug 2008 17:35:19 +0100, a écrit :
> > I think rather than trying todo anything in the signal handler,
> > it is safest to just set a flag and have its state checked
> > and acted upon in the main loop.
> 
> We can not do that for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS, however.

We shouldn't be trying todo anything for SEGV/BUS. It is basically game
over at that point - you've no chance of orderly shutdown. Only QUIT, INT,
TERM, HUP should be trying todo graceful shutdown, because those don't
imply your process is corrupting its memory/ doing bad stuff.

Daniel
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