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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Help! IOT trap errors!
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Date: 20 Jan 88 00:14:50 GMT
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>     OK -- does anyone out there have a list of conditions which
>     NeWS responds to with an IOT trap signal?

IOT traps, on most UNIX systems, are generated by the "abort" library routine.
In SunOS 3.2 and later, "abort" generates SIGIOT.  Unfortunately, I don't know
what would provoke NeWS to call "abort"; there appear to be a number of places
in the NeWS server source where "abort" is called, including something that
might well be a PostScript operator permitting PostScript code to generate an
"abort"....
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com