From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs) Subject: Re: tgif compiled, but what about SIGBUS? Date: 19 Oct 1992 15:39:51 GMT
In article <danielce.719491882@munagin> danielce@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel AMP Carosone) writes:
> 1) It's not a POSIX signal, at least insofar as I have understood.
neither are several of teh other signals linux generates.
> 2) SIGBUS signals an alignment error, for machines where the
> hardware requires that memory accesses be aligned to word (or
> other) boundaries. Pointers with odd absolute values will often
> cause this signal. This doesn't apply in the case of the 386.
I think bsd gives a SIGBUS if a user program does a inb() or outb() call,
this would seem to be more appropriate than SIGSEGV under linux.