Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:02:50 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC] SIGKILL vs. SIGSEGV on late execve() failures |
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > The only problem is that some suicides do SIGKILL, some SIGSEGV. > AFAICS, it started as SIGSEGV and had been switched to SIGKILL for a.out > (without any comments) in 1.1.62.
Ok, I really don't think it matters which one we do - either SIGSEGV or SIGKILL is fine for a execve() that fails in those rare "impossible to recover from" circumstances. And no, I have no memory what the reason for the switch was, it's much too long ago..
Linus
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