RE: Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty - FOLLOW UP - Getty also dumping core

[Peter Mueller <pmueller () sidestep com>]

you said you had a redhat 7.2 test, but you seemed to indicate it would core
dump?  mine didn't...

[pmueller@snowball pmueller]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
[pmueller@snowball pmueller]$ uname -a
Linux somehost.somewhere.com 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686
unknown
[pmueller@snowball pmueller]$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
Segmentation fault

[pmueller@utility pmueller]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
[pmueller@utility pmueller]$ uname -a
Linux utility 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
[pmueller@utility pmueller]$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[pmueller@utility pmueller]$

[fea@stage-fe1 ~]$ uname -a
Linux somehost.somewhere.com 2.2.14-VA.2.1 #1 Mon Jul 31 21:26:23 PDT 2000
i686 unknown
[fea@stage-fe1 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Piglet)      # this is valinux 6.2.1 + a few
patches
[fea@stage-fe1 ~]$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
Segmentation fault (core dumped)