[Libreoffice] Assertions and Logging

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Mon Nov 21 08:09:20 PST 2011


On 11/21/2011 04:50 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 	Until then, I think we need to stick with the signal handler, sadly, it
> is truly ugly, and I assume it can deadlock too if the signal happens at
> certain places wrt. holding mutex', remarkably few posix calls are
> signal-safe.

One indeed occasionally observes "hanging crashes" or "crashes within 
crashes" caused by the illegal activities we start off the signal handler.

Stephan


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