Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262001AbTKRBA1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:00:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262283AbTKRBAV (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:00:21 -0500 Received: from gaia.cela.pl ([213.134.162.11]:22277 "EHLO gaia.cela.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262001AbTKRBAO (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:00:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:00:01 +0100 (CET) From: Maciej Zenczykowski To: Keith Whyte cc: Edgar Toernig , , , Subject: Re: 2.4.18 fork & defunct child. In-Reply-To: <3FB96718.20103@media-solutions.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1183 Lines: 30 > { strace listing deleted, see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106905386725308&w=2 } well, I strace'd by glibc 2.3.2 system /bin/true and it doesn't fork and doesn't open proc (first place the two straces differ). Maybe your libraries have been hacked - seems the most likely to me - if this is happening for all programs than the libc is likely bad... I can't understand what it is opening /proc/.../exe for and I don't understand what the ///////// in there is for (I think more than 2 consecutive slashes are illegal in POSIX, not sure though, never use more than 2 :) ) On a side note /bin/true should take up somewhere like 10 bytes asm code - what the hell is that thing doing more than exit(1) for? it shouldn't open any files at all... what a bad design (and true --help and true --version don't work anyway... duh!) perhaps try ltrace'ing /bin/true and see what that prints out? Cheers, MaZe. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/