Capture signal and ignore some exceptions in LINUX

Capture signal and ignore some exceptions in LINUX

Sometimes we need the application skip some exceptions and continue to execute subsequent code, such as acceptance for divided by zero error, access free memory and etc.

For these conditions, signal of OS(Operating System) can solve these.

Common signals

#define NSIG 23

#define SIGINT 2
#define SIGILL 4
#define SIGABRT_COMPAT 6
#define SIGFPE 8
#define SIGSEGV 11
#define SIGTERM 15
#define SIGBREAK 21
#define SIGABRT 22       /* used by abort, replace SIGIOT in the future */
#define SIGABRT2 22

Detailed information to <signal.h>.

Example

Here we present a demo about access bad memory.

#include <setjmp.h>
#include "signal.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "unistd.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

void handler(int sig)
{
    printf("The cause the signal is %d\n", sig);
    longjmp(env, 1);
}

void main()
{
    signal(SIGFPE, handler);
    
    // store context
    int r = setjmp(env);
    if (r == 0)
    {
        // it maybe cause error
        int res = 10/0;
    else
    {
        printf("jump this code !!");
    }
}

NOTE

As you can see we also have used the header, <longjmp.h>, which is a little same as goto and usually used to skip some exception in C language. More details.