From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 06:21:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA11251 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 06:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA11243; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 06:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.5/8.6.9) id XAA17318; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:18:11 +1000 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:18:11 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199709191318.XAA17318@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free Cc: atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com, mike@smith.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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. Bruce