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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:19:55 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Now that sigcontext is gone ...
Message-ID:  <19991002011955.A85828@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990930144341.jdp@polstra.com>
References:  <19990930162834.C20978@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> <XFMail.990930144341.jdp@polstra.com>

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> > P.S.  This also reminds me that FreeBSD is non-standard relative
> > to Linux and all of the major vender commercial Unices in that a disallowed
> > access, such as a write to a read-only region of memory, generates
> > a SIGBUS rather than a SIGSEGV.
> 
> Yes, this even violates the 1996 POSIX spec.

So lets make the change for 4.0. :-)

Just how much code will break?

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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