Re: sigaction, fork, malloc, and futex

[Steve Beaty]

> Sure buggy code. There are only a few things you can do from
> a signal handler and I'm fairly sure fork() isn't one of them.

	well, one should only set values and deal with them somewhere in
	signal handlers, but...

> Did you just invent this as a way of concatenating system calls
> to see what works? Surely you don't have a program that does this
> do you?

	well, yes, but it is a classroom assignment so not "real" code.
	the assignment is to create a simulated disk drive (a process) via
	a "system call" that signals a "kernel".  perhaps we should really
	fork and exec...

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