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>> >However, it's shouldn't SIGILL in any case.  At least not without
>> >some more formal explanation as to why.. :-)
>> 
>> Oops, it is actually dying with SIGSYS, not SIGILL.  Sorry for the misleading
>> information.
>> 
>> David
>
>I've seen it dying at this very point when trying to use shared memory (can
>you say, "Bad system call"?)  :-(

Ah, that's it.  I built a kernel with SHM support, and it all works
OK now.

David