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To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>,
	Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>,
	"Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>,
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Subject: Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen ..
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: 20 Dec 2000 15:42:19 +0100
In-Reply-To: Aled Morris's message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:25:36 +0000 (GMT)"
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Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk> writes:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
> >    void *
> >    safe_malloc(int bytes) 
> >    {
> >	void *ptr;
> >
> >	if ((ptr = malloc(bytes)) == NULL)
> >	    *(int *)0 = 1;	/* force seg fault */
> 
> 
> Shouldn't you use "kill(0, SIGSEGV)" ?

Why not err(3) or abort(3) ?

/assar


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