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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:50:52 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, karl@Mcs.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.org, scrappy@ki.net
Subject:   Re: Sockets question... 
Message-ID:  <199611151850.KAA18955@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Nov 1996 05:35:16 %2B1100." <199611151835.FAA22344@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 
References:  <199611151835.FAA22344@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> >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.

Really?!  Gads, KILL(2) doesn't say anything about that.

I believe you, but isn't that a bug?  Is there some useful purpose
served by allowing it?

John



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