From 3b187c5cee0a9584d7c31e10f9fe008b94cf6d58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:10:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] update NEWS --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f4afcf6e0..84a43fd5d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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, -- 2.30.2