* Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-07 11:05]:
> That is a bizarre error message and an even more bizarre patch to fix it.
> The WCOREDUMP macro should take an integer exit status and return true or
> false based on whether the process exited with a core dump.  Passing a
> pointer into it is definitely wrong; casting it to a pointer to some
> struct that WCOREDUMP has never heard about is even weirder.  Something
> very, very strange is going on here.
> 
> That looks suspiciously like some sort of bug in the libc headers.
> However, that's almost never the actual problem, even when it looks like
> it, so I'll take a closer look.

It's not as bizarre as it looks.  See #386267 for a description of the
problem.  If you can come up with a better fix (i.e one for the glibc
header), I'd appreciate it.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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