Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:14:30 -0500


In message <m0zYGuU-0007UkC@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
+-----
| Its a nice solution. I still miss the approach some non unix platforms have
| where when the program takes the fatal exception its frozen and dumped under
| the debugger
+--->8

So? Put together a replacement for the exec*() family and use LD_PRELOAD.
Although I think adding the functionality to bash might be a better way to
do it. (In either case you lose for set[ug]id executables, but arguably
they should be run normally instead unless run by the appropriate
owner/group.)

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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