From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Sep 6 20:19:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC31B37B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 20483 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2000 03:19:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bde.zeta.org.au) (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 7 Sep 2000 03:19:34 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:19:30 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Nate Williams , marcel@cup.hp.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM JDK fails due to lack of SA_SIGINFO support In-Reply-To: <14774.29608.353021.688597@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Nate Williams writes: > > Umm, I'd believe this except that someone sent me a patch (which I've > > forwarded to Marcel) that fixes this and is related to the sigalstack > > error above. At least the author of the patch claims that the IBM JDK > > now runs successfully on his box, running some version of FreeBSD. :) > The change you're referring to isn't all that much different that what > I'd been doing previously (setting MINSIGSTKSZ to 2048 in sys/signal.h). It is quite different. You change is not incorrect, but the committed versions of Nate's patch results in memory beyond the end of the stack being clobbered if the stack is actually use. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message