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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 08:12:43 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Bug in malloc/free
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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 11:18:11PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> I still seems to me that we need a new function to mean:
>>	"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?

Greg