Re: /proc question

From: Davy Durham (pubaddr2_at_davyandbeth.com)
Date: 08/05/05

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    To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
    
    

    Jan Engelhardt wrote:

    >>I have a zombie process which has apparently died for some unknown reason.. I
    >>know it was terminated by a signal (found that from the 9th field (sheduler
    >>flags) in /proc/pid/stat)
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Start the process under the observation of strace.
    >
    >
    >
    >>However, I'm trying to figure out what signal killed it.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
    >Jan Engelhardt
    >
    >
    Wish I could.. but it's already happened (to a lot of processes for the
    same reason)

    It's an intermittant problem and can't really reproduce it at will.

    I've redeployed the binary now so I can hopefully attach to it with gdb
    to figure out some things next time it does happen.
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