[Nix-dev] staging --> master merge imminent

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:07:27PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> On 13 February 2015 at 22:20, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> wrote:
> > Thank you! Is the plan for failing libsigsegv to wait for
> > kernel.org fixes?
> 
> What's the connection between libsigsegv and kernel.org? I noticed
> libsigsegv test failures the other day (I was playing with armv7
> bootstrap), and I bisected the error to this commit:
> 
> 88fd7f452703f3280a3747e97b938c8e50ae962c (Re-Revert merge #5505:
> util-linux: use /run/current-system/sw/bin/*)
> 
> I was planning to make a gihub issue or post on nix-dev ML, but didn't
> get to it before now :-)

I think that linus changed the signal of stack overflow from SIGSEGV to SIGBUS.
At some point, people realized it was a bad idea, and they took the change back
in recent kernels.

But if you bisected it... no idea. :) That change you found is quite weird.