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> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 03:25:30 -0500
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> Not a sound from anyone on all this.  Is this of total disinterest
> to everybody?

I did comment, about an hour ago; perhaps you still didn't see it due
to propagation delays.

In general, people here are quite busy.  If you don't hear anything
in a few more days, perhaps it could help asking more specific
questions, if you have them.

Eventually, the important question is "Since none of you objected, how
about checking this code into the CVS?". ;-)

> A further question - will raise(SIGSEGV) in the package on
> detectable errors foul up the initialization sequence, since
> malloc etc. appears to be called during it?

I'd advise against raising SIGSEGV.  Use SIGABRT instead: it has the
same effect (abort with a traceback), but various parts of the library
internals, in particularly dpmiexcp.c (which handles signals), know
that it is not a ``real'' signal, so they treat it accordingly.