Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc3

[David S. Miller]

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:49:46 -0500

> I'm pretty curious about it too, none of my debian-based boxes have
> 'gdb' anywhere in /etc/init.d.  The only thing I see is that the shell
> script /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox calls gdb when passed '--debugger', or
> when the DEBUG environment variable is set...  Perhaps he's doing that
> during his .xsession?

There are a bunch of programs out there which fork and fire up
gdb and attach it to themselves if they take a SIGSEGV or
SIGBUS.  Printing out the parent process of the gdb will
likely reveal the exact case.

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