Mike Smith writes: > > Jim Bloom <bl...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > > >A signal handler is not guaranteed to work. It must be written such that > > >it > > >does not require a new page of memory. Some possible problems here are the > > >stack growing, writing on a new page in the data segment, etc. > > > > man sigaltstack > > That doesn't help; there is no guarantee that your stack or your > alternate stack have been mapped.
I assumed that the alternate stack had been forcibly allocated by touching the pages; I suppose things go pear-shaped if they have been swapped out and there's no space to swap out other pages so that the stack can be swapped in. Bummer. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch d...@dotat.at f...@demon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
