[Bf-committers] Save session recovery on SIGSEGV

[Robert Wenzlaff (AB8TD)]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:18, Alexander Ewering wrote:
> > Hi.  I've made a patch where BKE_undo_save_quit (the session recovery
> > saving function) is called whenever a segmentation fault occurs.
> >
> > I don't know if this is a good idea, if it'll work cross platforms, or
> > whatever, but anyway heres a patch.
>
> Cool, I wouldn't have thought the state is sane enough still to save a file
> in that situation

There's a decent chance that you will save the item that made it SIGSEGV in 
the first place.  It's usually an interaction with a tool, though, so would 
"probably" work most of the time.  But you might want to make it save 
"crash.blend" instead of saving over quit.blend.
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