From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266329AbTGEKam (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 06:30:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266332AbTGEKam (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 06:30:42 -0400 Received: from [213.39.233.138] ([213.39.233.138]:56970 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266329AbTGEKah (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 06:30:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:44:28 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, Kernel Mailing List , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.73] Signal stack fixes #1 introduce PF_SS_ACTIVE Message-ID: <20030705104428.GA19311@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20030704201840.GH22152@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030705073031.GB32363@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030705073031.GB32363@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 5 July 2003 09:30:31 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Fri, 4 July 2003 17:39:01 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > So how about something like the appended? Very simple patch,i and in fact > > it's more logical than the old behaviour (the old behaviour punched > > through blocked signals, the new ones says "if you block or ignore the > > signal we will just kill you through the default action"). > > That seems to be the best solution. Thanks! Except that the patch didn't match the description. My test loops just as happily as before and the conditional part of give_sigsegv is pointless now. That might really break some threading stuff. Anyway, the idea still makes sense, so I will try to come up with a working patch. Jörn -- "Translations are and will always be problematic. They inflict violence upon two languages." (translation from German)