Interprocess Communication: Messages & Monitors

[Tom Beres]

The question was "Why not reset signals to IGNORE rather than DEFAULT?".

The "obvious" answer given ("because there would be no way to stop
runaway programs") is incorrect.  Signal 9 ("Kill", or "DIE, you *##*@, DIE!")
can never be caught or ignored, so there is no way it could ever be reset
to IGNORE, and any runaway process could always be terminated with a
"kill -9" signal.

Perhaps the real answer has to do with catching your own memory faults, or
something along those lines, I haven't thought it out.  Perhaps the real
answer was shortsidedness?

- Tom Beres
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