Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:19:55 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Now that sigcontext is gone ... Message-ID: <19991002011955.A85828@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990930144341.jdp@polstra.com> References: <19990930162834.C20978@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> <XFMail.990930144341.jdp@polstra.com>
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> > P.S. This also reminds me that FreeBSD is non-standard relative > > to Linux and all of the major vender commercial Unices in that a disallowed > > access, such as a write to a read-only region of memory, generates > > a SIGBUS rather than a SIGSEGV. > > Yes, this even violates the 1996 POSIX spec. So lets make the change for 4.0. :-) Just how much code will break? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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