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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:33:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, marcel@cup.hp.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM JDK fails due to lack of SA_SIGINFO support
Message-ID:  <200009072233.QAA06837@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <14776.4695.816482.749092@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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>  > And the size is allocated inside the application's space?  I thought the
>  > size was allocated inside the kernel, hence the need for the system
>  > call.
> 
> The system call sets a flag and sets the sigstat stack pointer in the
> process struct.  Look at the code for "allocating" space for the
> signal handler context in the various sendsig() functions.
> 
>  > > Bumping the size in the kernel corresponds to using unallocated space
>  > > beyond the end of the space allocated by the application.
>  > 
>  > So how would you propose fixing this?  In Linux, the minimum size is <<
>  > FreeBSD's minimum size.  Either we decrease FreeBSD's minimum size or we
>  > abort the request, causing these applications to fail.
> 
> I'd suggest reducing FreeBSD's minimum size. 

Is that acceptable (Bruce)?  This is what Marcel suggested, and I argued
against, but in the end he was right, but I'm not aware of what effect
this would have on the system.



Nate


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