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   From: musiphil@bawi.org   
      
   On 2011-10-06 11:34, Harry wrote:   
   > Hi Gurus,   
   > Is it a best practice to handle segmentation fault inside a shared   
   > library(.so) C++ ?   
   > The shared library is used by C/C++ and java applications.   
   > My intention is that the program using my shared library should get   
   > return values in all cases even in case of segmentation faults.   
      
   Technically OT :), but I've seen programs that fork and let the child   
   process run a subtask that might crash. In that way, the parent process   
   can detect the crash and convert it into an error code or an exception   
   when the child crashes.   
      
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