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- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 85 16:04:35 PST
- From: mordor!lll-crg!sun!guy (Guy Harris)
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- > Was this deliberately omitted - in which case I object, as
- > a SIGILL is quite likely the best choice for SIGABRT...
-
- Not necessarily; 4.xBSD happened to choose it for the VAX, because there's
- no IOT instruction, but VAX S5's "abort" routine is a (portable!) piece of C
- code which does
-
- kill(getpid(), SIGIOT);
-
- (and also flushes all the Standard I/O buffers beforehand). SIGIOT is
- pretty useless except on PDP-11s; the S5 shell says "abort - core dumped"
- rather than "IOT trap - core dumped" when a process gets a SIGIOT.
-
- I think 4.xBSD should adopt S5's "abort" routine.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 12
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