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List:       netbsd-port-i386
Subject:    Re: FYI: Statically-linked tcsh from 2001 coredumps on 20030913 -current?
From:       christos () zoulas ! com (Christos Zoulas)
Date:       2003-09-19 2:42:26
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On Sep 18, 12:50pm, jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone) wrote:
-- Subject: FYI: Statically-linked tcsh from 2001 coredumps on 20030913 -curr

| FWIW, I think emulation 1.6 of signal is still buggy.
| 
| All the NetBSD machines I have in easy reach have an old (2001-ish,
| maybe 2002) statically-linked /bin/tcsh (pkgsrc relinked by hand).
| This binary was working up through late August.  Now it consistently
| coredumps before finishing the first user command. My kernel config is
| either GENERIC; or GENERIC_LAPTOP plus FAST_IPSEC.
| 
| I will try again with today's current (now I know that tcsh isn't
| implicated cause of all my machines panicking on every "sync" or "df".)
| 
| I can gladly either help with remote debugging, or provide the binary
| to anyone with time to improve (or regress-test) 1.6 signal emulation on i386.

Can you ktrace tcsh and see what it calls when it core-dumps?

christos

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