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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:17:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SIGDANGER
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980428121410.15319C-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980428073841.05698@mcs.net>

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On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:

> Well, now wait a minute..
> 
> SIGDANGER is useful if properly trapped and handled.  I'd like to see if
> supported with the default to be "ignore" (ie: you have to ASK for it to 
> be delivered and processed).
May I ask what good is it if it is ignored by default????

Default should be as it is on AIX, to terminate the process.  In general
you care more about system processes than user procs, so I would "make
world" on my system if this got added, with all the system procs having a
one line addition in main() to ignore the signal, and I would be ready to
go.


--
David Cross


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