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Subject: Re: MINSIGSTKSZ [was Re: IBM JDK fails due to lack of SA_SIGINFO 
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Marcel Moolenaar writes:

 > As long as MINSIGSTKSZ is larger than what the kernel actually needs to
 > implement the feature, we are fine. I want to look at how large this is
 > for different OSes that we are "close" with to determine an acceptable
 > value. Surely we need 2K as a high limit for Linux compatibility, but if
 > another OS (say SVR4) has 1K, we need to take that into account. Also, I
 > don't want to drive this value too low -- we can't raise it without
 > breaking backward compatibility.

FWIW, Tru64 (aka OSF/1)'s MINSIGSTKSZ is 4k, as is Linux/alpha's

Drew


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