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From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
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Subject: Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen .. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:25:36 GMT."
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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?[*])

-s
[*]  I don't have a FreeBSD complete source tree handy, this is a general
comment about arbitrary future libc implementations.


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