On Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:15:00 AM Alex Hunsaker wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > We probably should workaround that bug anyway given that its a pretty > > trivial DOS using only a trusted language and it will take quite some > > time to push out newer perl versions even if that bug gets fixed. > > > > Doing a pqsignal(SIGFPE, FloatExceptionHandler) after PERL_SYS_INIT3 > > seems to work. Is that acceptable? > > Makes sense to me. (I have not looked to see if there is some perl > knob we can flip for this) I couldn't find any. After some macro indirection the signal() call ends up being done unconditionally by a compiled function (Perl_sys_init3) without any conditions, so I don't think there is much that can be done without changing perl's source code...
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