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On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:58:28AM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>Would it be possible to implement sigaltstack, and SA_ONSTACK for
>struct sigaction.sa_flags?  GNU m4 wants to use this to allow for
>stack overflow detection.

Possible?  Yes.

Easy?  No.

Likely that someone will implement it?  No.

cgf

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