From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Truncated fatal error messages Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:08:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83mx0iwkcn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348301323 28835 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2012 08:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 22 10:08:47 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TFKlb-0001Vm-GA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:08:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFKlW-0001zF-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:08:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFKlT-0001yz-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFKlT-00051t-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:51018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFKlS-00051W-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MAQ00400RU43K00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:08:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MAQ003L3RYCU760@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:08:36 +0300 (IDT) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153453 Archived-At: This change: @@ -2012,7 +2014,12 @@ shut_down_emacs (int sig, Lisp_Object st { reset_all_sys_modes (); if (sig && sig != SIGTERM) - fprintf (stderr, "Fatal error %d: %s", sig, strsignal (sig)); + { + char buf[100]; + int buflen = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "Fatal error %d: %s", + sig, strsignal (sig)); + ignore_value (write (STDERR_FILENO, buf, buflen)); + } } } #else arbitrarily limits the signal description due to the 99-char limit of the buffer. Isn't it better to allocate the buffer (with alloca) based on the length of the signal description?