[mythtv] automatic backtrace on crash

Preston Crow pc-mythtv06b at crowcastle.net
Tue Aug 8 17:11:28 UTC 2006


I was just thinking that it ought to be possible to catch the sigsegv
signal and produce a backtrace for the log automatically, when I read
the article on eCrash in the September issue of the Linux Journal.  It's
a library for using the backtrace() functions in glibc when a program
crashes, with options for dumping multiple threads.

Incorporating something like this into Myth would make it much easier to
generate useful crash reports.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecrash/
http://linuxjournal.com/article/9139
ftp://ftp.scc.com/pub/lj/issue149/8724.tgz




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