From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 08:02:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA17018 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA17013; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA01781; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:01:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id KAA29922; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:00:28 -0500 Message-ID: <19970919100027.23678@right.PCS> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:00:27 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Bruce Evans Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free References: <199709191318.XAA17318@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <199709191318.XAA17318@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Sep 09, 1997 at 11:18:11PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sep 09, 1997 at 11:18:11PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > >I still seems to me that we need a new function to mean: > > "coredump, right now, no ifs, whens or buts. Thank you." > > A new signal, like SIGKILL except it generates cores, would be useful. > We would have to fix all the assumptions that sigset_t == int to make > room for another signal number. ``SIGCORE'' :-) -- Jonathan