Re: Messages with exit-signal

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz%cmu.edu@localhost> writes:

> On 15 Mar 2001, Niels Mller wrote:
> 
> > 2. What should the accompanying message look like?
> > 
> > Some of the alternatives are
> > 
> >   "Segmentation fault" (i.e. whatever strerror returns)
> >   "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
> >   "Process died: Segmentation fault"
> 
> You won't get these strings from strerror, because signals are not error
> numbers.  You pretty much have to come up with them yourself.  See, for
> example, sh.init.c in tcsh.

Ooops. I meant strsignal (or _sys_siglist on older systems).

> The " (core dumped)", on the other hand, is _not_ information the
> client can get elsewhere, since even the concept is UNIX-specific.
> IMHO, auxillary information like this should be included with the
> signal message.

There's a "boolean core dumped" field in the "exit-signal" request, so
this information can indeed be added to the message by the client.

/Niels