Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:58:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mark Hemment <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.1: memory corruption and SIGSEGV handlers. |
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Hi Dick,
> So you are saying that setup_frame() should reserve enough signal > stack-space to use the default handler if the signal stack grows > beyond limits? Let's look at the case of root where there is no > getrlimit set.
No. The default action for SEGV (the signal we are interested here), is to drop core. This doesn't require any user-stack space (just a call to do_exit()).
Mark
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