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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 2002 01:12:57 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [jmallett@FreeBSD.org: [PATCH] Reliable signal queues, etc., [for review]]
Message-ID:  <20021005011257.A16980@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210050811.g958BUvU023576@gw.catspoiler.org>; from dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:11:30AM -0700
References:  <20021005002021.A14635@FreeBSD.org> <200210050811.g958BUvU023576@gw.catspoiler.org>

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* De: Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org> [ Data: 2002-10-05 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: [jmallett@FreeBSD.org: [PATCH] Reliable signal queues, etc., [for review]] ]
> On  5 Oct, Juli Mallett wrote:
> > To
> > accomodate situations where allocation of a 'ksiginfo' is a failure
> > mode (no memory), the destination process is told to exit via a new
> > member of 'struct proc', p_suicide, which tells a process to kill itself
> > next time it goes through userret.
> 
> I hope that doesn't happen when I fg my editor ...

In this situation (can't allocate 64 bytes) you're screwed if you have an
editor in the background, coming to the foreground, anyway.
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