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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.

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