Re: kern/40004: ps core dumps when working on kernel core dump

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40004; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40004: ps core dumps when working on kernel core dump
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:43:48 +0100

 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:45:07AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 02:05:00PM +0000, bouyer%antioche.lip6.fr@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >  >   ps cores dump when working on a kernel core dump:
 >  > antioche:/var/crash#ps -N netbsd.10 -M netbsd.10.core -axu
 >  > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
 >  > Core was generated by `ps'.
 >  > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
 >  > #0  0xbbbcb46a in kvm_getproc2 () from /lib/libkvm.so.5
 >  > (gdb) where
 >  > #0  0xbbbcb46a in kvm_getproc2 () from /lib/libkvm.so.5
 >  > #1  0x0804c596 in main ()
 > 
 > Is that a normal kernel core or one of the new lightweight dumps?
 
 A lightweight one (this is what the kernel produced by default, I didn't
 configure anything special for this)
 
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