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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:10:31 -0500
From: Tony Holmes <tony@crosswinds.net>
To: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
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On +Jan 29, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:
> 
> > Signal 10 is Bus Error. This is much more rare, but still plausibly could
> > be caused by incorrectly written software. (I think I've seen Netscape 4
> > crash with this message once or twice -- but it's rare.)
> 
> The pthreads implementation on 4.x (-lc_r) will also provoke a bus error
> if the primary thread's stack (which is hard coded at 1MB) is exhausted.

I'm getting sig 10 from python only and it is linked with pthreads.... this
could explain it. It's a 4.9-Release box.

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Tony Holmes

Founder and Senior Systems Architect
Crosswinds Internet Communications Inc.