On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:24:05PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > So my "which is preferred" question was inappropriate. I had to ask > > "#1 or #2 or both or other ?" > > We should be consistent with other platforms -- having a look at e.g. the > i386 (as it used to be the reference) and the alpha (as close-enough to > MIPS) should reveal the answer. IIRC, a SIGSEGV that has a handler > installed, but which cannot be callled due to a bad stack pointer is > forced to SIG_DFL, but you may want to double-check it. That's what's already happening. We call force_sigsegv which is like force_sig unless it's trying to deliver a SIGSEGV in which case it'll reset the handler to SIG_DFL, return to userspace where it hits the break instruction and starts all over to process the SIGTRAP. Ralf
