From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] signal handler defaulting fix ...
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:49:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628214942.GC29901@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040628144003.40c151ff.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 28 June 2004 14:40:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Following up from the other thread (2.6.x signal handler bug) this bring
> > 2.4 behaviour in 2.6.
> >
>
> Pity the poor person who tries to understand this change in a year's time.
> Could we have a real changelog please?
It better be a good one. I've hit a real problem that raised more
than a few eyebrows. In short, if some program is stupid enough to
cause a segfault inside a segfault-handler, it doesn't have a reason
to survive.
Your patch will let the poor creature live an unhappy life. No good.
Jörn
--
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without
necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including
blind stupidity.
-- W. A. Wulf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-28 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-28 21:34 Davide Libenzi
2004-06-28 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-28 21:55 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-28 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-28 22:13 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-06-29 1:24 ` Edgar Toernig
2004-06-29 12:02 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-28 21:49 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
[not found] <2cfBL-6uJ-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-07-03 13:54 ` Kai Henningsen
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