Subject: Re: core dumps on shutdown and more...
To: Michael Kukat <michael@camaronet.de>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/06/1999 16:31:09
>
> The last line should be "Broken pipe" or so, not "Segmentation fault". SIGPIPE
> doesn't create these nice dumps. So i think there is a bug in signal handling.
> This is what a ktrace of the above command does:
>
> 191 od RET write 4096/0x1000
> 191 od CALL write(0x1,0xb000,0x1000)
> 191 od PSIG SIGPIPE caught handler=0x55555555 mask=() code=0x0
> 191 od RET write -1 errno 32 Broken pipe
> 191 od PSIG SIGSEGV SIG_DFL
> 191 od NAMI "od.core"
>
I think that the libc way of setting signal vectors do not correspond
anymore to how the kernel think it shall be done... That's sad.
-- Ragge