In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Amancio Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 18 Aug 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
> >
> > > That reminds me. I thought that SIGBUS meant byte-alignment errors.
> > > What does it mean on FreeBSD/x86?
>
> The boehm garbage collector is trying to find the memory limit so I guess
> in FreeBSD is going to get a SIGBUS.
>
> In linux they get SIGV
Right. FreeBSD gives SIGBUS for pages that are mapped but protected,
and SIGSEGV for pages that aren't mapped at all.
As I recall, Linux doesn't even have SIGBUS as far as the kernel is
concerned.
John
--
John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
