>You misunderstood me. The code is fine, but the docu in the header: Yes I bet :) >"* @li an user defined function in the form: HandlerType myCrashHandler { myFunctions(); }" This is from Tom Braun AFAIR, you're right, it doesn't work. >There is also: >"#warning the comment above needs to be checked if HandlerType myCrashHandler { m >yFunctions(); } works" This is from me because I didn't knew it either :) >kioslaves (you know what they are, right ?) are not KApplications, >so they don't have the default crash handler, nor do they really >want to use it. So I just set a custom sigsegv handler (in slavebase.cpp). >The point is that I used KCrash for that, but I could have done as well >without (one line in both cases ;-) Sure, but do kioslaves inherit from kapp.cpp? If not, there's no problem with using a signal at all .) Yours Timo