Re: i486 emu in mainline?

Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-25T09:36:56Z

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On Mon, 2004-05-24 13:41:56 -0400, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
wrote in message <20040524174156.GG19161@devserv.devel.redhat.com>:
> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:17:15PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > There are some application that register signal handling functions IIRC
> > for SIGILL, SIGSEGV and the like to do internal error trapping on their
> > own (not only OOo comes to mind). These would probably be f*cked up if they
> > didn't call the LD_PRELOADed signal handler...
>
> No. The LD_PRELOAD also hooks the signal setting functions. This really is
> not rocket science at all.

But works only on dynamically linkes executables, and only on those that
don't do system calls on their own, right?

MfG, JBG

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