Tracing SIGKILL, is that possible?

[daniel hilst]

Em 18/02/2013 16:09, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu escreveu:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:46:58 -0300, "Daniel." said:
>> Is there a way to track signals, specially SIGKILL. I would like to
>> know if some process dies because reach some resource limit, because
>> an OMM error or something likewise..
>
> Depends on where you want the tracking to go.  But your first thing to try
> would probably be:
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals
>
> which controls this code in kernel/signal.c:
>
> static void print_fatal_signal(int signr)
> {
>          struct pt_regs *regs = signal_pt_regs();
>          printk("%s/%d: potentially unexpected fatal signal %d.\n",
>                  current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), signr);
>
> Bahh.  That's missing a KERN_INFO.  Patch submitted.
>

Hi Valdis, Thanks!
This should be a good start,
Cheers!