Re: time seg fault

[Justin Williams]

Unfortunately, if I try to strace it (strace time ls), I get command not
found.
If I try to strace `time ls`, I get a hung screen.

Attaching gdb to the running bash session from which I am trying to run
time, I don't get any useful pointers, but, what I get is below:

(no debugging symbols found)
Attaching to program: /bin/bash, process 5647
linux-nat.c:988: internal-error: linux_nat_attach: Assertion `pid == GET_PID
(inferior_ptid) && WIFSTOPPED (status) && WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGSTOP'
failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.

I also, for grins, tried sleep 5 && time ls in the bash session and, while
it was sleeping, attached the gdb to the bash session, to see if I could get
anything that way, and got the below:
warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO
at 0x7b122651f000
(no debugging symbols found)
0x000035c7a95e7884 in ?? ()

Not sure if this helps get any closer, but, thanks!

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> rjustinwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
> > time echo "bah"
> > time ls
> > time who
> >
> > Running the commands without the time, they return results as close to
> > instantly as I can think of, but, try to time them, in bash, and they
> > all hang.
>
> Since nobody seems to be able to reproduce this, maybe attaching to the
> hanging bash process with gdb and doing a stack traceback will provide
> better information.
>
> Chet
>
> --
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>
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>