[PATCH] debug: Remove catchsegv libSegfault

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Tue Dec 21 17:34:31 GMT 2021


On 12/21/21 06:53, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
>> Trapping SIGSEGC within the process is error-prone, adds security
>> issues, and modern analysis design intends to happen out of the
>> process (either by atraching a debugger or by post-mortem analysis).
> Typo: libSeg[f]ault
> 

Plus "SIGSEGC" -> "SIGSEGV". (At first I thought someone had slipped a 
new signal into the kernel without my noticing....)

Also, "intends" -> "tends", and (later on in the patch) "atraching" -> 
"attaching" and "analisys" -> "analysis".

> I think, technically we will have to maintain libSegfault/catchsegv for
> many years as

? This doesn't seem to match your approval of the removal.


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