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Subject: Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex
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Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 01:57:53 +0200
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From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
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On Wed, 05 May 2004 01:40:09 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> The signal handler executes on its own signal stack, it
> can't reach anything thats located on the main program stack.

Only when using sigaltstack(2). Otherwise, by default, there is
no seperate signal stack.

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Ciao,
Pascal