RFR(XXS): 8224793: os::die() does not honor CreateCoredumpOnCrash option

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

On 5/29/19 12:23 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On May 29, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty <daniel.daugherty at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> SIGABRT (signaled by ::abort) has a default action of Core, which is
>>> the reason for the current behavior.  (And ::abort will invoke that
>>> action if the installed action returns rather than terminating the
>>> process.)
>> When I researched the man pages (macOS, Solaris and Ubuntu) for this bug,
>> I found that only the Solaris abort(3c) man page mentioned the possibility
>> of abort() generating a core file. It seems that the other platforms are
>> depending on other man pages to describe the result of SIGABRT. Sigh…
> In case you haven’t already found it, signal(7) is the appropriate Linux man page.
>

Yup...

macOS:   man signal
Solaris: man -s 3head signal
Ubuntu:  man -s 7 signal

Dan