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Re: Bash 3.0-2 and kill
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According to Angelo Graziosi on 6/24/2005 3:26 PM:
> I have noted that when one uses
>
> kill -9 <process-PID>
>
> in bash 3.0-2 (test), the command kills the process but also bash (even
> if one uses /bin/kill...).
>
I have gotten to the point where I am seeing reproducible crashes in a
plain debugging version of bash inside gdb, but that the problem appears
to be malloc'd memory corruption (I hate those bugs - they are so hard to
pinpoint). I now have to attempt to build a malloc-debugging version of
bash, and see where bash is corrupting the heap.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
cygwin bash maintainer
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