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Why is this a problem?

Posted Mar 8, 2008 0:27 UTC (Sat) by jake (editor, #205)
In reply to: Why is this a problem? by vonbrand
Parent article: GCC 4.3.0 exposes a kernel bug

> No, it has nothing to do with calling mem<foo> in a signal handler.

What I was trying to say is that it would be a memmove() or something like it in the signal
handler that would be tripped up by DF being set unexpectedly.

jake

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