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Re: Crash recovery strategies


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Crash recovery strategies
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:33:31 +0200

> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:55:26 -0800
> 
> 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.

You won't be able to do anything except call printf, without jumping
out of the handler.  The stack space left after stack overflow is too
small for anything fancier.  You will almost certainly crash, that's
all.



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