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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:19:30 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, marcel@cup.hp.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM JDK fails due to lack of SA_SIGINFO support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071412260.27159-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <14774.29608.353021.688597@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Nate Williams writes:
>  > Umm, I'd believe this except that someone sent me a patch (which I've
>  > forwarded to Marcel) that fixes this and is related to the sigalstack
>  > error above.  At least the author of the patch claims that the IBM JDK
>  > now runs successfully on his box, running some version of FreeBSD. :)

> The change you're referring to isn't all that much different that what 
> I'd been doing previously (setting MINSIGSTKSZ to 2048 in sys/signal.h).

It is quite different.  You change is not incorrect, but the committed
versions of Nate's patch results in memory beyond the end of the stack
being clobbered if the stack is actually use.

Bruce



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