Really dont like this WAS: signal 32

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> $ hostname
> corsica
> $ sleep 90&
> [1] 648
> $ kill -32 648
> $ ps ax 648
>   PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> No processes available.
> [1]+  UPaE}  sleep 90
> 
> Now on calvin:
> 
> $ hostname
> calvin
> $ sleep 90&
> [1] 17929
> $ kill -32 17929
> $ ps ax 17929
>   PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> No processes available.
> [1]+  Unknown signal 32       sleep 90
> 

I don't know but this looks kinda scary to me. It looks like something is
reaching into an area of memory that it should not.  Recap:

CALVIN signals to a sleep command:

Signal 3	dumps core
Signal 32	dies with invalid signal

CORSICA signals to a sleep command:

Signal 3	Exits with QUIT
Signal 32	Dies with gibberish that can not be fully cut-pasted.


Configuration:

CALVIN

kernel 2.0.32 libc-4.6.27 libc-5.4.38-1 libc-2.0.7t-1 

CORSICA

kernel 2.0.32 libc-5.4.38-1 libc-2.0.7s-1

Bother kernels were built by me but from the standard source packages with
the standard kernel headers packages and symlinks as dpkg sets them up ...
no tinkering. These are what I consider production systems.

I am going to upgrade the libc6 on corsica and see if it makes any
difference.




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