fatal error handling

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

Today, while reading some documentation about a MiNT port,
I ran accross an interresting suggestion from the author:

  "Although this port works fine on my machine, It might be 
   a good idea to recompile MiNT so that when a fatal error
   occurs, MiNT automatically reboots."  [ie:  coldboot]
   
Further to this, it would be nice if MiNT wrote an error log,
to help track the cause, after rebooting, IMHO.

The approach I would enjoy is:

   1) screen goes black
   2) an error message appears:
   
      pid 0 (MiNT) fatal error at "blah blah..."
      Read error log /c/kernel.err for details.
     
      Press any key.
      System will now reboot...
      
I am not sure which parts of MiNT need to be changed for this 
(maybe an external TOS application that uses straight VT52 ?),
but it sounds like a proper way to handle a system crash.
 
Any ideas how to accomplish this?


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