[2161] in Release_7.7_team
netscape coredump can cause IRIX panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Mar 8 17:26:05 2000
Message-Id: <200003082225.RAA04649@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:25:56 -0500
Hi Todd,
We've discovered that IRIX has a bug that can cause a panic when
programs run out of AFS try to coredump onto local disk. SGI is aware
of the problem, but it will probably be a long time before they have a
fix available. Since netscape is more prone to coredumping than a lot
of things we'd appreciate it if you could add somethign to the
netscape wrapper to limit coredumpsize to zero. Arguably this could
be done for all platforms, since it's not like people around here are
debugging the coredumps, but setting it up for IRIX should reduce the
number of people getting hurt.
Thanks,
Jonathon
