I want to be able to recover from a Segmentation Fault in MyApplication by catching the SIGSEGV and restarting QApplication. So for testing purposes I'm injecting a segmentation fault in my code.
The issue is that the signal handler that catches the SIGSEGV is getting a non-stop stream of SIGSEGVs. At first I thought it was the while loop in my main but it still happens even though I comment out the while loop. So my questions are simple: Is it even possible to recover from a Segmentation Fault in Qt? Why am I getting rolling SIGSEGVs non-stop?
#include <QApplication>
#include <QDebug>
#include "MyApplication.h"
#include <initializer_list>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define RESTART_CODE 1000
void catchUnixSignals(std::initializer_list<int> quitSignals)
{
auto handler = [](int sig) -> void
{
if (sig == SIGSEGV)
{
QCoreApplication::exit(RESTART_CODE);
}
else
{
QCoreApplication::quit();
}
};
sigset_t blocking_mask;
sigemptyset(&blocking_mask);
for (auto sig : quitSignals)
sigaddset(&blocking_mask, sig);
struct sigaction sa;
sa.sa_handler = handler;
sa.sa_mask = blocking_mask;
sa.sa_flags = 0;
for (auto sig : quitSignals)
sigaction(sig, &sa, nullptr);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
catchUnixSignals({SIGSEGV, SIGQUIT, SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGHUP, SIGKILL});
int i = 0;
do
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
MyApp myapp;
MyApp.start();
app.exec();
if (app.exec() != RESTART_CODE) break;
} while(1);
return 0;
}
