[maemo-developers] Trapping application "crashes"?

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Daniel Stone" <daniel.stone at nokia.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:01:40PM -0700, ext Jayesh Salvi wrote:
>> If you end up registering your signal handlers - do only little in those
>> signal handlers. It's not a good idea to keep executing once you have
>> corrupted memory - you might run into more ugly errors.
>
> Indeed, man signal (at least from glibc) explicitly lists the only calls
> that are safe to run from signal handlers.

Which is of course a different thing: even if you only use the
signal-safe functions in your handler, you shouldn't ever return from
it and try to continue the program.