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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-10-28 18:10:48 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-10-28 18:10:48 +0100
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@@ -174,6 +174,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 217:
and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not
overwritten at runtime.
+ * When the watchdog logic is used for a service (WatchdogSec=)
+ and the watchdog timeout is hit the service will now be
+ terminated with SIGABRT (instead of just SIGTERM), in order
+ to make sure a proper coredump and backtrace is
+ generated. This ensures that hanging services will result in
+ similar coredump/backtrace behaviour as services that hit a
+ segmentation fault.
+
Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov,
Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L.
Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch,