Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:43:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap-related problems Message-ID: <199904151743.KAA02998@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:40:16 BST." <E10XkVE-0004kz-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
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> Jim Bloom <bloom@acm.org> wrote: > > > >A signal handler is not guaranteed to work. It must be written such that it > >does not require a new page of memory. Some possible problems here are the > >stack growing, writing on a new page in the data segment, etc. > > man sigaltstack That doesn't help; there is no guarantee that your stack or your alternate stack have been mapped. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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