Bug 112117

Summary: RFE: show coredump status of the killed process if available
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv>
Component: straceAssignee: Roland McGrath <roland>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Dmitry V. Levin 2003-12-14 22:46:36 UTC 
Description of problem: 
When traced process gets killed by signal, strace reports it without additional 
information  whether it have dumped core or not. 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
4.5.1 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
$ ulimit -c 4294967296 
$ strace -e trace=execve /bin/sh -c 'kill -ABRT $$' 
 
Actual results: 
execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "kill -ABRT $$"], [/* 0 vars */]) = 0 
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- 
+++ killed by SIGABRT +++ 
 
Expected results: 
execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-c", "kill -ABRT $$"], [/* 0 vars */]) = 0 
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- 
+++ killed by SIGABRT (core dumped) +++
Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2003-12-14 22:47:35 UTC 
Created attachment 96532 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 2 Roland McGrath 2004-01-13 09:57:14 UTC 
I put the patch in upstream.  A future Fedora Core rpm will include it.
Comment 3 Jay Turner 2004-09-02 03:32:25 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-338.html