From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 28 12:27:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08336 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08174 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 1225 invoked by uid 27268); 28 Apr 1998 19:27:42 -0000 Date: 28 Apr 1998 19:27:42 -0000 Message-ID: <19980428192742.1224.qmail@xcf.berkeley.edu> From: Jason Nordwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Karl Denninger Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Withrow , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER In-Reply-To: karl@mcs.net on 4/28/1998 to dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, witr@rwwa.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG <19980428073841.05698@mcs.net> References: <199804280030.UAA06099@spooky.rwwa.com> <199804280453.XAA03316@dyson.iquest.net> <19980428073841.05698@mcs.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Denninger, on Tue 4/28/1998, wrote the following: > > 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). > Then it would almost always be ignored? Wouldn't this reqire patching almost every noncritical program? It would probably be easier just to patch a few important tools and find a Good(c) way to pick the unlucky process. jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message