> In article <199910291916.VAA01421@father.ludd.luth.se>,
> 	ragge@ludd.luth.se (Anders Magnusson) writes:
> > Main question:
> > Why doesn't it dump core on i386? 
> 
> I have asked this very question more than one time when I had the same
> problem with the pc532 port about 1.5 years ago. I finally gave up and
> changed exect to be execve (like it is the case on every port except the
> vax and i386). Now I'd just like to know why the vax didn't show up this
> problem earlier.
> 
Tha vax may have showed up this earlier, but I never use shutdown myself
so I don't know. Why is shutdown using exect() at all??? 

-- Rage