Re: dump core while running

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:28:38PM +0200, Brad du Plessis wrote:
> Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>> Actually, make that
>>              kill(getpid(), SIGTRAP);
>>              pause();
>>   
>
> Why the pause() ?

pause(3):

"DESCRIPTION
        Pause is made obsolete by sigsuspend(2).

        The pause() function forces a process to pause until a signal is 
received
        from either the kill(2) function or an interval timer. (..)"

SIGTRAP/ABRT/QUIT/ILL/EMT/FPE might be blocked. See also sigsuspend(2),
sigaction(2), signal(7).

-Martin