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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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