Re: Caught signal 9 in core file ????

[Peter.Schauer]

This happens with multithreaded programs, as BFD is picking up the current
signal from some other thread (which received a SIGKILL due to the death
of the currently executing thread).

The following lightly tested BFD patch would fix the problem at least for
Solaris, but I currently have very little time to file a proper RFA, sorry.

*** bfd/elf.c.orig      Sun Jul 29 10:48:13 2001
--- bfd/elf.c   Fri Sep 21 22:18:41 2001
***************
*** 5436,5442 ****
        offset   = offsetof (prstatus_t, pr_reg);
        memcpy (&prstat, note->descdata, sizeof (prstat));
  
!       elf_tdata (abfd)->core_signal = prstat.pr_cursig;
        elf_tdata (abfd)->core_pid = prstat.pr_pid;
  
        /* pr_who exists on:
--- 5436,5443 ----
        offset   = offsetof (prstatus_t, pr_reg);
        memcpy (&prstat, note->descdata, sizeof (prstat));
  
!       if (elf_tdata (abfd)->core_signal == 0)
!       elf_tdata (abfd)->core_signal = prstat.pr_cursig;
        elf_tdata (abfd)->core_pid = prstat.pr_pid;
  
        /* pr_who exists on:
***************
*** 5459,5465 ****
        offset   = offsetof (prstatus32_t, pr_reg);
        memcpy (&prstat, note->descdata, sizeof (prstat));
  
!       elf_tdata (abfd)->core_signal = prstat.pr_cursig;
        elf_tdata (abfd)->core_pid = prstat.pr_pid;
  
        /* pr_who exists on:
--- 5460,5467 ----
        offset   = offsetof (prstatus32_t, pr_reg);
        memcpy (&prstat, note->descdata, sizeof (prstat));
  
!       if (elf_tdata (abfd)->core_signal == 0)
!       elf_tdata (abfd)->core_signal = prstat.pr_cursig;
        elf_tdata (abfd)->core_pid = prstat.pr_pid;
  
        /* pr_who exists on:

> 
> While running gdb to investigate a core file I noticed at the
> beggining of the gdb output while reading the core file
> the following line (take a look to the last line):
> 
> Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.7"...
> Core was generated by `/opt/ALAsm/ConfigMaint/bin/ConfigMaint'.
> Program terminated with signal 9, Killed.
> 
> 
> How can a signal 9 generate a core file?
> 
> Regards,
> Chabane
> 
> 
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