On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:30:31PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > It is not the masking of SIGSEGV... It is a more subtle thing,
> > because linux behaves the same way. Anyway the change should
> > not be backed out because it will make SEGV processes spin again,
> > but we should investigate why side-effect it is causing.
> 
> The spinning is not a severe problem - such app can easily be killed
> manually. Since the change broke some real-world apps and we want

The spinning may break real-world apps.  I can think of a certain
commercial LISP interpreter that catches SEGV... will reverting this
change break PVS et. al again to fix Matlab?  Six of one, half a dozen
of the other!

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud