Subject: Re: mips handling of SIGSEGV and SIGBUS.
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 10/02/2000 15:15:13
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:26:53PM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

 > In particular, I think the whole bit about "choose between SEGV and
 > SIGBUS based on fault type and result from the vm system" is quite
 > artificial and unnecessary.  In general, in NetBSD the 'normal' way of
 > doing things is "SEGV if it's an OK access that you don't have perms
 > for or have not mapped, BUS if it'd never be a valid access."

I agree ... better to be consistent across platforms.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>