Re: solaris nscd cores

[woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Saturday, December 1, 2001 at 14:57:38 (-0500), mikeDOTd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: solaris nscd cores
>
>       I saw a number of nscd crashes thursday-friday on my sun.
>
>       I have a full core, and initially I see this:
>
> Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/nscd'.
> Program terminated with signal 9, Killed.
> #0  0xef7563d8 in ?? ()
>
>       If I find anything else I'll post to the list.

There are a couple of things majorly wrong with this picture.  So far as
I know the only way a process will ever get "signal 9" (SIGKILL) is if
someone running with the same privileges as the process, or as the
superuser, manually sends it.  Also so far as I know you'll never get a
core dump from a SIGKILL, at least not on SunOS.

Either your debugger is lying, or something's really broken worse than
it appears (could ncsd have sent itself SIGKILL?).

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