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.

We are all familiar with the 'try - except' constructs from C++ (or Java, etc.) code and we all know what this construct is used for. However, I will try to take us deeper into the underlying exception handling mechanism in this post.