Re: [patch] signal handler defaulting fix ...

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 28 June 2004 14:40:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Following up from the other thread (2.6.x signal handler bug) this bring 
> > 2.4 behaviour in 2.6.
> > 
> 
> Pity the poor person who tries to understand this change in a year's time. 
> Could we have a real changelog please?

It better be a good one.  I've hit a real problem that raised more
than a few eyebrows.  In short, if some program is stupid enough to
cause a segfault inside a segfault-handler, it doesn't have a reason
to survive.

Your patch will let the poor creature live an unhappy life.  No good.

Jörn

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More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without
necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including
blind stupidity.
-- W. A. Wulf 
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