Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc3

From: Stephen Frost
Date: Tue Nov 29 2005 - 12:56:28 EST


* Chris Shoemaker (c.shoemaker@xxxxxxx) 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

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