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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:37:29 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To:        David Marker <marker_d@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SIGSEGV not blocked in gdm [was Re: setenv() cores with NULL value] 
Message-ID:  <nospam-1003289849.24685@mx1.gbch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011016164610.95419.qmail@web14702.mail.yahoo.com>  of Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:46:10 MST
References:  <20011016164610.95419.qmail@web14702.mail.yahoo.com> 

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David Marker wrote:

| Before reading that I was not aware you could block
| a SIGSEGV. But gdm doesn't even appear to block that
| signal. (grep for sigation, then SIGSEGV, didn't find
| anything to suggest it blocks SIGSEGV.)

This is not by any means a reliable method of finding out if a
signal is blocked: sigaction (not sigation) is not the only
interface for setting signal handlers, etc; people often just
use the integer values rather than the special constants; other
factors might come into play.

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