Re: How To Trap fatal errors in a GTK Application.

["Harsha Kodnad" <harsha km tallysolutions com>]

Hi James,

Thanks for the answer,
Can you tell me how to set my own handler ?
is there any api available for this ?


Thanks 
Regards,

Harsha Kodnad
Senior Software Engineer
Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore

Ph     : +91 80 302 82559 Ext : 327
Email :  harsha km tallysolutions com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>
To: "Harsha Kodnad" <harsha km tallysolutions com>
Cc: <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: How To Trap fatal errors in a GTK Application.


> On 23/08/04 20:01, Harsha Kodnad wrote:
> 
> >     I have written a GTK+ application. (Gnome) When ever my 
> > application crashes a Gnome Dialog is displayed. How can I trap this 
> > fatal and segfault errors so that I can display my dialog and exit ?
> 
> The crash dialog is called from a SIGSEGV signal handler.  If you set 
> your own handler for this, you can probably do your own thing.
> 
> Note that if this gets called, then your app has done something bad that 
> you probably won't be able to recover from.  You'd be better off trying 
> to fix the problems that cause your app to segfault.
> 
> James.
> 
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