From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 15 4:43: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C32F14D1F for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 04:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fanf@demon.net) Received: by noc.demon.net; id MAA28152; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:40:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from fanf.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.83) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xma028052; Thu, 15 Apr 99 12:40:18 +0100 Received: from fanf by fanf.noc.demon.net with local (Exim 1.73 #2) id 10XkVE-0004kz-00; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:40:16 +0100 To: current@freebsd.org From: Tony Finch Subject: Re: swap-related problems In-Reply-To: <371540AA.BA9AED2A@acm.org> References: <199904142340.TAA96857@misha.cisco.com> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:40:16 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Bloom wrote: > >A signal handler is not guaranteed to work. It must be written such that it >does not require a new page of memory. Some possible problems here are the >stack growing, writing on a new page in the data segment, etc. man sigaltstack Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net Arthur: "Oh, that sounds better, have you worked out the controls?" Ford: "No, we just stopped playing with them." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message