From 65ccd641bacea33be23d51da737c2de7543d0f5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adhemerval Zanella Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:41:55 -0300 Subject: debug: Remove catchsegv and libSegfault (BZ #14913) Trapping SIGSEGV within the process is error-prone, adds security issues, and modern analysis design tends to happen out of the process (either by attaching a debugger or by post-mortem analysis). The libSegfault also has some design problems, it uses non async-signal-safe function (backtrace) on signal handler. There are multiple alternatives if users do want to use similar functionality, such as sigsegv gnulib module or libsegfault. --- sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/segfault.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/segfault.c (limited to 'sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/segfault.c') diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/segfault.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/segfault.c deleted file mode 100644 index a417df9c41..0000000000 --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/segfault.c +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#define HAVE_PROC_SELF 1 -#include -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2