Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 23:45:16 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, grog@lemis.com Cc: atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, mike@smith.net.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free Message-ID: <199709201345.XAA26010@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>> "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. > >Is that really so important? You can call sigaction from a signal >handler, so you can unmask the signal before calling it. A new signal >for the sake of a couple of lines of library code? Only broken libraries could do that, since if a signal is masked then something must want it masked. Bruce
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