Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932229AbVK2RnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:43:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932265AbVK2RnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:43:24 -0500 Received: from ns.snowman.net ([66.92.160.21]:62605 "EHLO ns.snowman.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932229AbVK2RnX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:43:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:44:04 -0500 From: Stephen Frost To: Chris Shoemaker Cc: Linus Torvalds , Michael Krufky , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc3 Message-ID: <20051129174404.GQ6026@ns.snowman.net> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Shoemaker , Linus Torvalds , Michael Krufky , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <438C0124.3030700@m1k.net> <438C80DD.7050809@m1k.net> <20051129172534.GA4514@pe.Belkin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FWsKKOMrHBxzpZBm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051129172534.GA4514@pe.Belkin> X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.snowman.net X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.24ns.3.0 (i686) X-Uptime: 12:43:41 up 171 days, 9:56, 8 users, load average: 0.08, 0.09, 0.12 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1213 Lines: 36 --FWsKKOMrHBxzpZBm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline * Chris Shoemaker (c.shoemaker@cox.net) wrote: > I doubt gdb is in rc.d scripts. My wild uninformed guess would be > that some process (maybe xinit?) hit a SEGV and had its own signal > handler installed that tried to call gdb and attach to the crashing > process. I could imagine something like that being useful for > generating nice userspace stack traces to send to the developers. I > think I've seen something similar in some builds. Not sure if it's relevent, but I think samba does this too... Stephen --FWsKKOMrHBxzpZBm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDjJNkrzgMPqB3kigRAos4AJ9Za2I9KOmC+KR27/2PYvZToB0KZgCfSOPC eJv6rbXMKYOloZvgi+fDmo8= =jQL6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FWsKKOMrHBxzpZBm-- - 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/