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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 1997 08:12:43 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, mike@smith.net.au
Subject:   Re: Bug in malloc/free
Message-ID:  <19970920081243.54396@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709191318.XAA17318@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 11:18:11PM %2B1000
References:  <199709191318.XAA17318@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 11:18:11PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> I still seems to me that we need a new function to mean:
>>	"coredump, right now, no ifs, whens or buts. Thank you."
>
> A new signal, like SIGKILL except it generates cores, would be useful.
> We would have to fix all the assumptions that sigset_t == int to make
> room for another signal number.

Is that really so important?  You can call sigaction from a signal
handler, so you can unmask the signal before calling it.  A new signal
for the sake of a couple of lines of library code?

Greg



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