Why couldnt we implement a int 0x80 that would do nothing/call SIGSEGV handler ? We did it for all other ints we have implemented.
> If, let's say, a windoze app really used int 0x80 to intentially > obliterate the user's system? Well, Wine wouldn't stop it. > > > I know wine uses the ptrace syscall, is that really only > > for debugging purposes, or is it for catching the SIGSEGV > > signals also? > > It's to support certain win32 features (that's mostly used for > debugging). > Catching signals is done with sigaction(). > > ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com