[Haifux] Suggested lecture: "Crash and burn: writing Linux application fault handlers"

[Leon Romanovsky]

Sure, schedule it.

>
> Howdy folks,
>
> I'd like to suggest a lecture for Haifux meeting.
>
> Title: Crash and burn: writing Linux application fault handlers
>
> Abstract:
>
> Complementing the standard Linux fault handler ("Segmentation fault.
> Core dumped.") with a custom handler that reports the crashing program
> state without a debugger is a useful endeavor in many situations.
> Unfortunately, writing such a fault handler correctly can be
> surprisingly hard and requires certain amount of black magic.
>
> The proposed lecture is a tutorial that will demonstrate how to write
> such a handler, covering such topics as: getting program symbolic stack
> trace and registers and reporting them safely, the care and feeding of
> async signal POSIX handler functions, how to avoid implicit memory
> allocations and how to test for them, how to handle multi-threaded
> faults, the black magic involved with how Linux handles signal handlers,
> the unfortunate effect this has on obtaining a correct stack trace in
> case of a fault and how to overcome this limitation.
>
> Let me know if there is interest and available times.
>
> Cheers,
> Gilad
>
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> Gilad Ben-Yossef
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