Greetings, and thanks for looking into this! It is still there on the sid dchroot on vaughan:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat t.c int main(int argc,char * argv[]) {return system(argv[1]);} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cc -g t.c -o t [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./t "echo g" g [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cc -g -pg t.c -o t [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./t "echo g" [1]+ Stopped ./t "echo g" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kill %1 [1]+ Stopped ./t "echo g" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [1]+ Terminated ./t "echo g" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gdb ./t GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "mipsel-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) r "echo g" Starting program: /home/camm/t "echo g" l Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0x2aba1c44 in fork () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) 1 int 2 main(int argc,char * argv[]) {return system(argv[1]);} (gdb) bt #0 0x2aba1c44 in fork () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x2ab3bda0 in strtold_l () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) disassemble Dump of assembler code for function fork: 0x2aba1c10 <fork+0>: lui gp,0xf 0x2aba1c14 <fork+4>: addiu gp,gp,21024 0x2aba1c18 <fork+8>: addu gp,gp,t9 0x2aba1c1c <fork+12>: addiu sp,sp,-32 0x2aba1c20 <fork+16>: sw ra,28(sp) 0x2aba1c24 <fork+20>: sw s0,24(sp) 0x2aba1c28 <fork+24>: sw gp,16(sp) 0x2aba1c2c <fork+28>: lw v0,-32664(gp) 0x2aba1c30 <fork+32>: lw a0,-30344(gp) 0x2aba1c34 <fork+36>: lw t9,0(v0) 0x2aba1c38 <fork+40>: nop 0x2aba1c3c <fork+44>: bnez t9,0x2aba1c80 <fork+112> 0x2aba1c40 <fork+48>: nop 0x2aba1c44 <fork+52>: li v0,4002 0x2aba1c48 <fork+56>: syscall 0x2aba1c4c <fork+60>: lw t9,-32680(gp) 0x2aba1c50 <fork+64>: bnez a3,0x2aba1c68 <fork+88> 0x2aba1c54 <fork+68>: move s0,v0 0x2aba1c58 <fork+72>: lw ra,28(sp) 0x2aba1c5c <fork+76>: lw s0,24(sp) 0x2aba1c60 <fork+80>: jr ra 0x2aba1c64 <fork+84>: addiu sp,sp,32 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- 0x2aba1c68 <fork+88>: jalr t9 0x2aba1c6c <fork+92>: nop 0x2aba1c70 <fork+96>: lw gp,16(sp) 0x2aba1c74 <fork+100>: sw s0,0(v0) 0x2aba1c78 <fork+104>: b 0x2aba1c58 <fork+72> 0x2aba1c7c <fork+108>: li v0,-1 0x2aba1c80 <fork+112>: lw ra,28(sp) 0x2aba1c84 <fork+116>: lw s0,24(sp) 0x2aba1c88 <fork+120>: jr t9 0x2aba1c8c <fork+124>: addiu sp,sp,32 End of assembler dump. (gdb) (gdb) (gdb) shell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd ./t libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2ab00000) /lib/ld.so.1 (0x2aaa8000) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l libc6 uname -a Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Linux vaughan 2.6.17.7 #2 Mon Jul 31 12:08:35 EDT 2006 mips GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Take care, Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > I've tried to look into this on my mips machine, but all seems to work > > as expected: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/libc6/changelog.Debian.gz > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat >t.c > > int > > main(int argc,char * argv[]) {return system(argv[1]);} > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cc -g t.c -o t > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./t "echo g" > > g > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cc -g -pg t.c -o t > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./t "echo g" > > g > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version: > > Version: 2.3.6.ds1-4 > > > > One difference to point out is that I'm using a 2.6 kernel on this > > machine: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > > Linux mallet 2.6.16-1-r5k-ip32 #1 Mon Apr 3 18:39:05 UTC 2006 mips64 > > GNU/Linux > > > > which might explain it. I don't have any mipsen running 2.4 atm. Camm, > > can you still reproduce this? > > > > Ah, hang on - you reported this on vaughan, which is mips*el*. It > > seems to be locked down atm, so I can't take a look myself atm on > > there... > > I couldn't reproduce it on mipsel/unstable with 2.4.27 kernel. > Camm, can you try gdb and/or strace on the testcase? > > > Thiemo > > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]