Running a program through gdb without "interfering"

[Mel Flynn]

On Friday 09 October 2009 00:38:32 Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 10/9/09, Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.hackers at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a way to have a program run through gdb and gdb only record a
> > segfault, but otherwise let the program run?
> >
> > Why I'd like this is the following:
> > I've got a i386 jail on an amd64 box, running 7.2-p4. UNAME_p and UNAME_m
> > have
> > been set to i386 as well as ARCH in /etc/make.conf. Running portmaster[1]
> > to build ports under my uid and PM_SU_CMD, sudo *sometimes* segfaults.
> > It's only
> > sudo, so at present I don't have a reason to doubt memory. However, it
> > doesn't
> > dump core, so I'm at a loss what the culprit could be.
> 
> Tried 'sysctl kern.sugid_coredump=1' ?

Hmm, no. Enabled now and waiting for the next segfault.
I actually looked at the sysctl -d, but it didn't register that this could be 
the main cause.
Perhaps that sentence could be more clear:
-kern.sugid_coredump: Enable coredumping set user/group ID processes
+kenr.sugid_coredump: Allow setuid/setgid processes to dump core

-- 
Mel