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- Subject: Re: perl 4.035 induces kernel panic in SVR4
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.204557.15522@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: maziere1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mazieres)
- Date: 10 Sep 92 20:45:56 EDT
- References: <1992Sep7.002515.15426@husc3.harvard.edu> <jrh.715877574@mustang> <1992Sep9.180635.27817@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Sep9.180635.27817@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <jrh.715877574@mustang>, jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard) writes:
- >| maziere1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mazieres) writes:
- >|
- >| >I'm running Consensys SVR4.0.3. Perl-4.035 compiled fine with the native
- >| >cc (gcc gave problems). When I do a "make test," however, it gets as far
- >| >as comp/for and then the kernel panics. I'm not even running it as root.
- >
- >| I have built perl 4.035 here on Dell SVR4, and with gcc I believe. I
- >| suspect that you may not have answered the configure questions all correctly
- >| or something *real* wierd is going on. I can either send you my build tree
- >
- >Randy, I hate to disagree, but I don't care how badly he messed up his
- >build parameters, if the kernel panics the o/s is at fault, not the
- >user or the software.
- >
-
- Thanks for all the help I've gotten. In fact, my problem was simply that I
- was including libucb before libc. I changed the library flags to -lc -lucb,
- and the new version tested fine. When I posted I figured I'd probably messed
- up the flags somehow--the really disturbing thing is that a non-root user can
- bring the whole system down. I know the ucb library has tons of bugs in it,
- but should even the most bizarely warped and misused system calls panic the
- kernel? (i.e. not should as in is this a good thing, but should as in have
- other people been able to crash their SVR4 kernels reproducibly)
-