NEVER SAY DIE lets you rescue from segmentation faults. Got a SEGV, don’t worry about it anymore! Just rescue an exception and get on with life. Who cares about getting a SEGV anyway? It’s just memory. I mean, when I was in school, I didn’t need 100% to pass the class. Why should your memory need to be 100% correct to get the job done? A little memory corruption here and there doesn’t hurt anyone.
So go for it! Kick back, grab a beer, require the NEVER SAY DIE gem and let your problems go away sometimes!
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Oh so many problems…
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Portability…
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Not solving the root cause..
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It might not work.
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Massive security hole
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Just to name a few
I will let the (passing) test speak for itself:
assert_raises NeverSayDie do NeverSayDie.segv end
Here is the source of the segv method:
static VALUE segv(VALUE self)
{
int *ptr = NULL;
*ptr = 1;
return self;
}
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libsigsegv
First, install libsigsegv. If you’re on OS X, do this:
$ sudo port install libsigsegv
If you’re on Debian, do this:
$ sudo apt-get install libsigsegv-dev
I’m not sure about other platforms. Then install the gem:
$ sudo gem install neversaydie
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