5.1-R: zero byte core file.

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:40 AM -0700 8/20/03, Yogeshwar Shenoy wrote:
>While using 5.1-RELEASE, I find that if my application program
>seg  faults, it produces "programname.core"; but it is 0 bytes.
>I ran the exact same program on another machine that was running
>4.4-RELEASE, and I do get a core file that I can use with gdb.
>I'd really appreciate if someone could help me resolve this.

Note that it would be better to ask questions about 5.1-RELEASE
on the freebsd-current mailing list.  The 5.x-series has not
been made the "stable" branch of freebsd -- not yet at least.

In a different message, Colin Faber wrote:
>
>Dual 2.4GHz Xeon P4 HT CPU's and I've discovered I can lock
>up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 on command

Same for 5.x, for any value of '.x'.

These are fine questions to ask for help on, it's just that you
will get better results by asking the group of people who run
the 5.x-series.  freebsd-stable is still for the 4.x-series of
releases.

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