Re: Long standing bug in alternate stack handling

2001-04-25 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: Hi, [ Sorry for the follow up on my own post ] > If a signal handler is registered with the SA_ONSTACK flag the > kernel will try to execute the signal handler on the alternate > stack even if no such stack is registered. Here

Long standing bug in alternate stack handling

2001-02-21 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, I just found this out the hard way: If a signal handler is registered with the SA_ONSTACK flag the kernel will try to execute the signal handler on the alternate stack even if no such stack is registered. This is an explicit violation of Unix98 and probably Posix. Architectures affected in