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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 02:36:41 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre5
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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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