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

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 18:09:39 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:47:49PM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> >
> >Stack "allocation". No error code available.
>
> This is the one place where a stack warning signal would be usefull - when
> the last page of stack is entered, a signal can be sent, and handled.

"sigaltstack" can be used to deal with most of this. Just arrange for
stack overflow to deliver a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS onto the alternate
stack.

--Stephen

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