Package libsigsegv: Information

Source package: libsigsegv

Version: 2.6-alt3

Build time:  Aug 5, 2009, 02:11 AM

Category: Development/C

Home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/libsigsegv/

License: GPL

Summary: GNU libsigsegv - Handling page faults in user mode

Description: 

This is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault
occurs when a program tries to access to a region of memory that is
currently not available. Catching and handling a page fault is a useful
technique for implementing:

  - pageable virtual memory,
  - memory-mapped access to persistent databases,
  - generational garbage collectors,
  - stack overflow handlers,
  - distributed shared memory,
  - ...

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
libsigsegv (x86_64, i586)
libsigsegv-devel (x86_64, i586)

Maintainer: Ilya Mashkin

ACL:
@qa_p5