From: utzoo!watmath!dmmartindale
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: abort does not abort
Article-I.D.: watmath.3609
Posted: Sat Oct  9 02:20:04 1982
Received: Sat Oct  9 06:45:36 1982

The problem is that abort causes an IOT on the PDP11, (which gives you
the core dump desired) but an illegal instruction on the VAX.  Since
intrEXIT resets the signal action for SIGIOT not SIGILL, you just loop
until you run out of stack space.  The fix is to reset the appropriate
signal:


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

	Dave Martindale