Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:27:57 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: smc@servtech.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone else seen this? Message-ID: <199703270427.XAA04344@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199703260321.NAA24228@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Mar 26, 97 01:51:06 pm"
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> Shawn Carey stands accused of saying: > > > > Now that we are running 2.2-RELEASE, this anomaly appears to be > > something more serious than I originally thought, as gdb now stops the > > program with the message "Process killed due to text file modification", > > and sure enough, the file's date is changing but a diff between an idle > > copy and the "modified" executable is nil. Furthermore, I have recently > > discovered that if I link the program with -static, the problem goes > > away. > > This looks very much like a problem that has been reported many times > before, where one or more pages from a process' text are written back > to the file. The pages aren't actually changed, but the file's timestamp > is obviously updated. > I have not seen the problem on the 2.2 series recently. However, I seldom use GDB... Is this a problem that pops up when using GDB (setting breakpoints, etc.)? If it is, then that will give me a direction to look in. I'll also look into reproducing the problem this weekend. John
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