From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 07:44:48 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] signals and blocked in I/O Message-ID: <20171201154448.GL3924@mcvoy.com> Does anyone remember the reason that processes blocked in I/O don't catch signals? When did that become a thing, was that part of the original design or did that happen in BSD? I'm asking because I'm banging on FreeBSD and I can wedge it hard, to the point that it won't recover, by just beating on tons of memory. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm