From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 2 1:20:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3CE214ECE for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA62375; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA85897; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:19:55 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Polstra Cc: Alan Cox , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Now that sigcontext is gone ... Message-ID: <19991002011955.A85828@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <19990930162834.C20978@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > P.S. This also reminds me that FreeBSD is non-standard relative > > to Linux and all of the major vender commercial Unices in that a disallowed > > access, such as a write to a read-only region of memory, generates > > a SIGBUS rather than a SIGSEGV. > > Yes, this even violates the 1996 POSIX spec. So lets make the change for 4.0. :-) Just how much code will break? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message