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- From: Jay Vassos-Libove <libove@compgen.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: What happens when SIGSEGV is generated while blocked?
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:35:30 -0500
- Organization: Computer Generation, Inc.
- Message-ID: <31447272.3F54@compgen.com>
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- We ran in to an interesting situation today, where we are blocking
- reception of all signals, and while the signals were blocked, we
- walked off the end of an allocated space and caused a segmentation
- violation. The SIGSEGV couldn't be delivered, as the signal was
- blocked... and the program appeared to hang.
-
- What really happens? Is there any standardize/defined behaviour
- for this kind of situation?
-
- Our platform is Digital UNIX (nee OSF/1), versions 3.assorted.
-
- Please reply via e-mail -- I WILL summarize back to this newsgroup.
-
- Thanks!
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- Jay Vassos-Libove
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