Subject: Signal catching changes broke Matlab
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/16/2004 20:48:31
Hi,

Mark Davies tracked down the problem with Matlab. It's caused
by change in rev. 1.190 of sys/kern/kern_sig.

Problem is, how would be fix this properly? Just backing
the change off is an option. Perhaps only do the resetting
if the signals are not shared (i.e. p->p_sigacts.sa_refcnt == 1) ?

Jaromir
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