[linux-audio-dev] pthreads and signals

[David Olofson]

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 17.15, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 04:12:39PM +0200, David Olofson wrote:
> > > has anybody come up with code in which segfaults within threads
> > > are handled? i have a few ideas on an approach that might work,
> > > but i'm asking first :)
>
> ...
>
> > I believe the SDL parachute traps segfaults as well, BTW. I'll
> > have a look...
>
> Yes, it does, I've noticed it doing that on meterbridge, which is a
> jack app.

Yeah... However, I realized why it doesn't do anything special: It 
cleans up and terminates the application before leaving the signal 
handler, so it never runs into the "life after death" problem.


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