Re: Virtual vs. physical swap & shared memory forks (clone)

From: David Whysong (dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 18:04:48 EST


On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:
>Richard Gooch wrote:

>> Stack "allocation". No error code available.

> Except via "SIGSTKFLT" (16) - Sig Stack Fault if 'caught' -- likely
>resulting in a suspend of the process? Is state saved on kernel or on
>user stack? Seems like it couldn't be on the user stack, otherwise, how could
>you deliver it?

I don't know.

But SIGSTKFLT is not portable even within Linux. According to the man
page, it doesn't exist on alpha, sparc, or mips.

Dave

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