general_protection result to die

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:23:34 +0800, horseriver said:
>  does general_protection trap necessarily result to die ?

Think for a bit - what other actions can reasonably be taken?  You
hit a GPF, it's obvious that the variables you're working on have
been corrupted, so automatically continuing is probably a Really Bad
Idea.  If there's a debugger involved (gdb/kgdb), you can hand it to
the (presumed) person running the debugger and let *them* figure out
what to do, but that's about the only other realistic option.
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