On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:42 +0100, Simon Farnsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> A question - what is it about preforking a backtrace handler that you think > will put people off using it? It's an ugly hack to work around a bug in glibc. A non-prefork version wouldn't consume any resources until the server actually crashes. If we knew that systems which did not have syscall(2) also had a working fork(2), then we could simply use syscall(SYS_fork) where available and expect that to work around any potential glibc bugs. -- [email protected]
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