From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: abort does not abort
Article-I.D.: floyd.619
Posted: Thu Oct  7 11:08:53 1982
Received: Fri Oct  8 07:46:02 1982

My uucico core dumps all the time.  When I look at the dumps, there is
always a LONG stackful of abort() calls intrEXIT() calls abort() calls
intrEXIT().  It seems to dump core for blowing the stack (at great cpu
expense), rather than generating an illegal instruction.

intrEXIT() looks like this:  (from cico.c)

intrEXIT()
{
	signal(SIGIOT, SIG_DFL);
	setuid(getuid());
	abort();
}

Other programs which try to abort this way (after trapping signals)
seem to do the same thing.

What's the problem (solution)?

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491