Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 06:41:19 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@munich.netsurf.de> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Something screwy with 2.2.x? Message-ID: <199707080641.GAA17919@peedub.gj.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jul 1997 18:38:13 MST." <33C19A05.15FB7483@whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer writes: >I've been seeing sporadic SIG-11 failures on busy machines >with 2.2.2+ (sources from last week. > >for example forking off 34 'ping -c 17 -s 500' >(don't ask) will cause failures in random sh and ping processes. > >It's a small machine (8MB) so there's paging going on.. >Unfortunatl;y the ping is not giving core dumps (why not?) >even wne not suid root. >the shell was doing so, but as more of the failures are happenning >in ping, I'd like to see that core-file. > >Any ideas ? > on my system ping is setuid root. Seems to me that the kernel refuses to generate core dumps for setuid processes. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de Work - gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
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