[PATCH-V4] xserver: Optional backtrace handler

[Keith Packard]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:42 +0100, Simon Farnsworth <simon.farnsworth at onelan.co.uk> 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.

--
keith.packard at intel.com
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