The appended program isn't working as expected. As soon as the stack limit is reached it hangs without actually executing the signal handler. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something Andreas.Schwab@suse.de completely different." SuSE Labs, SuSE GmbH, Schanzäckerstr. 10, D-90443 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5