On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:00:40PM -0700, Don Hiatt wrote: > Sorry if this is the wrong list to post to; if it is, could you > please suggest an alternative? :) How about linux-mips ;-) > Below you will find a very simple shell script that crashes under > 2.4.25 running on a RM9000 (PMC rm7935) with busybox 1.0. This script > just demonstrates the actual problem but I do not believe it is > isolated to busybox. In fact I wrote a simple program that just does > this: > * for(;;) > * fork() > * mmap file "foo" > * compare "foo" to an array image > * waitpid() linux-mips.org has no RM9000 support in it's 2.4 code. That leaves it up to guessing what could be happening in your codebase. > and it will run for a while and then SEGFAULT at various times. According > to GDB the stack is corrupted and looking at the PC it does seem bogus > (0x2acf2e50). That would be a typical address for a shared library. > The program crashes after a random amount of time but generally no more > that a minute or so. I can speed up the process if I ping-flood the target. > > Now what is really wierd is that if I run the program under gdbserver > it doesn't crash (or at least has not in the last 1/2 hour). Does gdbserver > change the execution context differently that gdb?? Strange indeed. Both shouldn't affect the state of a running program as long as it isn't being stopped. Ralf
