From: Dave Airlie (airlied at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Thu 16 Aug 2001 - 22:20:04 IST
bash-2.04# uname -a
Linux radon 2.4.5-ac18 #4 Wed Jul 18 16:20:45 IST 2001 i686 unknown
bash-2.04# tail -n 1 -f /var/log/messages
Aug 16 23:33:46 radon su: (to root) airlied on /dev/pts/3
[1]+ Stopped tail -n 1 -f /var/log/messages
bash-2.04# bg
[1]+ tail -n 1 -f /var/log/messages &
bash-2.04# kill -SEGV %1
bash-2.04#
[1]+ Segmentation fault (core dumped) tail -n 1 -f /var/log/messages
works for me t.m. .. not sure how close 2.4.5-ac18 is to 2.4.6
Dave.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
> ok, i'm using linux 2.4.6 and trying to generate a core dump (for
> a change). i do this by doing:
>
> uml-1# ulimit -c unlimited
> uml-1# tail -f /etc/group &
> blah
> [1] pid
> uml-1# kill -SEGV %1
> [1] + segmentation fault tail -f /etc/group
> uml-1# ls core
> ls: core: No such file or directory
>
> no core file. on a 2.2.19 system i see:
>
> roo# tail -f /etc/group &
> blah
> [1] pid
> roo# kill -SEGV %1
> [1] + segmentation fault (core dumped) tail -f /etc/group
> roo# ls core
> core
>
> ok, what's the story? why am i not getting a core file? any theories?
>
> kevin
>
>
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
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