[13217] in Athena Bugs
Re: /bin/login core dump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 15 12:04:43 1995
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 12:04:34 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-dialup@MIT.EDU
Not too concerned about this one... :)
maytag# dbx login core
dbx version 2.10.1
Type 'help' for help.
Corefile produced from file "login"
Child died at pc 0x400198 of signal : Quit
reading symbolic information ...
[using memory image in core]
(dbx) where
> 0 __start(0x7fffbfb0, 0x7fffbfb6, 0x7fffbfb9, 0x7fffbfbe, 0x0) ["./crt0.s":96, 0x400194]
That is, it got a SIGQUIT way before it even had an opportunity to set
itself up to ignore the signal. The dialup was probably being slow,
and the user got impatient and attempted to escape from telnet (^])
and perhaps hit ^\ by mistake.
Craig
