Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk> To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen .. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012211126240.2463-100000@kai.qix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200012201528.JAA15116@guild.plethora.net>
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Peter Seebach wrote:
>In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012201120480.436-100000@kai.qix.co.uk>, Aled Morris
>writes:
>>Shouldn't you use "kill(0, SIGSEGV)" ?
>
>Gratuitously verbose!
> raise(SIGSEGV);
>
>(To be fair, raise(SIGSEGV) is quite likely to just jump to the segfault
>handler without actually setting any signal bits, but who can tell?[*])
From /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/raise.c:
int
raise(s)
int s;
{
return(kill(getpid(), s));
}
which raises an interesting difference between my "kill(0," and
the probably more rigourously correct "kill(getpid()," in the
context of trying to emulate the effect of "*(int *)0 = 1".
Aled
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