Many programmers, who started their career with Windows programming, are getting a bit frustrated when it comes to exception (signal) handling in Linux and keep asking about Linux analogs of Structured or Vectored Exception Handling.

Internet is full of information on Linux signals and usage thereof, starting with simple "signal(SIGSEGV, foo)" examples through more complicated tutorials. The purpose of this article is to show the way your applications interface with Linux kernel when it comes to signal handling.