From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756469Ab1AaWb4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:31:56 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:47541 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753451Ab1AaWbz (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:31:55 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=oZ6eJ0UgiNCVWY3s8tjxY6Gg1npOgLybxEokjAMpm64g73VvtIT+vq7ER2umLhoZMk xFv7bIUDmL5hKw+zWCyyvjnd0esoZrpP5ffskBLM2tIXhXEcz2WAlCGLsAmBQsUD8thC bPn6E9fW/eVS9VGJt5htjMUNIul5XubfbnaU4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:31:53 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: process exception From: Sri Ram Vemulpali To: Kernel-newbies , linux-kernel-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, This is regarding segment fault. Is there any feature that we can allow kernel to kill only the thread that generate seg fault rather than killing whole process in which it is running. Why is that we did not implement in such way. Is there any specific reason. Thanks in advance for explanation. -- Regards, Sri.