Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 19:36:00 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: smc@servtech.com (Shawn Carey) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else seen this? Message-ID: <199703260336.TAA10850@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <33388927.41C67EA6@servtech.com> from "Shawn Carey" at Mar 25, 97 09:25:43 pm
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Shawn Carey wrote: > > [snip] > Now that we are running 2.2-RELEASE, this anomaly appears to be > something more serious than I originally thought, as gdb now stops the > program with the message "Process killed due to text file modification", > and sure enough, the file's date is changing but a diff between an idle > copy and the "modified" executable is nil. Furthermore, I have recently > discovered that if I link the program with -static, the problem goes > away. > > Linking statically is a fix that is good enough for me, but I would be > interested in helping to find out what's going on if anyone thinks this > is worth more investigation. I have already emailed John Polstra, who > says he has seen similar occurences, and John Dyson, who seems to have a > full plate at the moment. This sounds exactly like the problem that /etc/daily turns up once in a while. Once in a while it will find setuid files that have had their times changed, but nothing ever really touched the file. This is the first time I've heard that dynamic/static linking makes a difference. That is a good clue. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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