From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265229AbUF1Vtv (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:49:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265250AbUF1Vtv (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:49:51 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:41105 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265229AbUF1Vts (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:49:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:49:42 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Andrew Morton Cc: Davide Libenzi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [patch] signal handler defaulting fix ... Message-ID: <20040628214942.GC29901@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20040628144003.40c151ff.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040628144003.40c151ff.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 28 June 2004 14:40:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Davide Libenzi 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