Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc3

From: David S. Miller (davem_at_davemloft.net)
Date: 11/30/05

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    Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:18:49 -0800 (PST)
To: sfrost@snowman.net

    From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
    Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:49:46 -0500

    > I'm pretty curious about it too, none of my debian-based boxes have
    > 'gdb' anywhere in /etc/init.d. The only thing I see is that the shell
    > script /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox calls gdb when passed '--debugger', or
    > when the DEBUG environment variable is set... Perhaps he's doing that
    > during his .xsession?

    There are a bunch of programs out there which fork and fire up
    gdb and attach it to themselves if they take a SIGSEGV or
    SIGBUS. Printing out the parent process of the gdb will
    likely reveal the exact case.

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