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Stephen Weeks sweeks@intertrust.com
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From: Henry Cejtin <henry@sourcelight.com>
To: sweeks@intertrust.com
Subject: Re: alternate stacks for signal handlers
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:52:53 -0500

As far as I know, all the sa_restorer stuff is obsolete and I haven't ever
seen an SA_RESTORER flag.  The SA_ONSTACK is what you are supposed to use
in sigaction() to cause an alternate stack.