Comment 15 for bug 1278780

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:45:39PM -0000, Gerry Boland wrote:
> Ok, task is for Qt clients to intercept the sigsegv signal, and in a
> handler close the mir connection which should release all its video
> buffers, then re-raise segv. Would it be of interest to have all mir
> clients exhibit this behaviour by default? If so, should put this
> behaviour in "mirclient"

Not Qt clients. The issue here is with crashes of the compositor itself.
Those are the ones that unavoidably lock up the UI while the kernel crash
handler is being run.