Re: solaris nscd cores

[Fyodor <fygrave () tigerteam net>]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:06:35PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> >     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?).

or it could be a watchdog thread/process which commits suicide in case is
something went wrong. Just a blind guess..


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