Re: core dumps on signals

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
26 Feb 1999 11:18:19 +0100


hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:

|> > PWR n/a exit (normal systems would ignore by default)
|>
|> I don't think so; SIGPWR sent to init means it should shut down the
|> system as soon as possible. If init dies

init never dies by a signal it doesn't handle.

|> > STKFLT n/a exit (this is Linux-specific junk)
|> > UNUSED n/a exit (this is Linux-specific junk)
|>
|> I would still like to suggest these two getting recycled as SIGTHREAD1
|> and SIGTHREAD2, for LinuxThreads to use.

That's not needed. See glibc.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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