Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre5

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 1 Apr 2002 02:36:41 +0200

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:52:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> False alarm. My test app was not handling SIGBUS inside its SIGBUS
> handler.

Good :). BTW, sigbus should never indicate an oom failure, SIGKILL is
always sent in such a case. If it would came out of a pagefault it would
mean it was a MAP_SHARED access beyond the end of the file.

thanks,

Andrea
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