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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [PATCH 1/3] signal(i386): alternative signal stack
	wraparound occurs
In-Reply-To: Ingo Molnar's message of  Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:50:45 +0100 <20071127105045.GG6286@elte.hu>
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Emacs: more boundary conditions than the Middle East.
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:07:58 -0800 (PST)
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> thanks Roland for the detailed analysis. I've queued up the patch below 
> in the x86 tree. I suspect we can wait with this for v2.6.25, due to 
> this being long-standing behavior of Linux? Thus we could observe the 
> effects of this patch for a longer time.

It's certainly nothing new.  The failure mode of concern is only for a
buggy program to fail to crash as quickly and gracefully as it might.


Thanks,
Roland
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