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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 05:45:06 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: bochs vga font not detected by X
Message-ID:  <20020214044506.GA669@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <E16bD40-0006kH-00@goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:00:05PM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2002 04:28 am, Gautham Ganapathy wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > mkfontdir worked. thanx a lot. however, i have a new problem. on
> > running bochs, it panics and gives a message saying that SIGILL is
> > not implemented. the signal manpage says that SIGILL cannot be
> > trapped using signal. is there any workarond for this? bochs seems
> > to work fine when, i change the config to ignore fatal errors.
> > however, this could generate unpredictable errors.
> >
> > gautham
> 
> Gautham,
>    You should be able to trap SIGILL (illegal instruction signal) 
> with signal(); SIGKILL (kill signal) is the one (along w/ SIGSTOP) 
> that signal() won't catch.
> - Bob

You can catch it, but it is anyone's guess what state your program will
be in if you continue to run it ...

-- 
Regards
Cliff



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