Re: Some example code for a new crash handler

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

If people want to had recoverability of segfaults they have to provide
their own sigsegv handlers. 

On 11 Jan 2002, Hongl Lai wrote:

> Do you hate crashes? You know, you're writing a document in your word
> processor, or browsing the web, and then suddenly, "This program has
> crashed blah blah...".
> Currently, when a GNOME program crashes, it simply displays a dialog and
> tells the user that the program has crashed, and must be closed.
> I don't think this is a good thing to do.
> The user doesn't get a chance to save any open documents.
> 
> I have made a small example program that displays a crash dialog, but
> lets the main program alive so the user can save any open documents
> before closing the program.
> The code is attached in this email (2.1 KB).
> 
> I think GNOME 2.0 should handle crashes this way.
> Comments? Suggestions? Flames? Trolls? ;-)
> 
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	Sander

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