Detecting a process being killed

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From: Arnie Mauer
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:21

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I have a console app.  All of main runs in a try/catch block.  The app logs
messages including successful completion or any exceptions caught.  The
problem is that (a customer reported) it just disappears with no logging.
I'm thinking someone might be using task manager to kill it.

I built a test app and used task manager to kill it.  It does get killed.  I
have set up signal handlers for:

   signal( SIGINT, ImDead );
   signal( SIGTERM, ImDead );
   signal( SIGABRT, ImDead );
   signal( SIGILL, ImDead );
   signal( SIGSEGV, ImDead );

but "ImDead" never gets called upon termination.  Is there any other
mechanism that a process can use to detect if it's being killed?

Thanks,
- Arnie

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