Re: 2.1.109: Watchpoints persisting after debugger exits?

Eric PAIRE (e.paire@opengroup.org)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:53:27 +0200

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> After debugging a program using watchpoints, some programs (ls, for
> example) ceased to work---they terminated due to a `Trace/breakpoint
> trap'. Other users were affected as well. This seems to be some kind
> of kernel bug, doesn't it? (I wasn't able to reproduce it with
> 2.1.115 just now, though.)
>
> (RH 5.0, glibc 2.0.7, Kernel 2.1.109 non-SMP on a P2 with 128 MB RAM)
>
This has been actually fixed in 2.1.115 (was in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c)

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