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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> Did you receive a signal?  That is known to cause similar behaviour on
>> SunOS...
>
>Can't.  Any signal on that process is a SERIOUS error; its a DBMS!  We have
>a generic "oh shit" trap for all signals set; it does not go off.

Don't do that for SIGIO.  Anyone can send SIGIO to any process.

Bruce