Hrm, so I've been trying to learn how to write HURD translators, and as an experiment I decided to make something akin to /dev/random that collects bytes from random.org.
Anyway, random.org exposes a CORBA interface, so I figured I would use that; first I wrote a test program to learn ORBit, thats when the fun started. Interestingly enough, when you first compile the test program (which reads a number from random,org's corba interface and prints it out), exactly every other time it dies, saying only 'Killed'. I suspect it never gets into main, somehow, because I interleved all the CORBA statements with puts, and none of them are reached (I made the io unbuffered afaik, so it should print out at least the first few statements before dying). Things get interesting when you run it under gdb, it works every time. After you exit gdb it appears to run every time also. It runs every time under rpctrace, but doesn't actually make the CORBA call (it ruturns 0). Below I've included the outputs. The source is at http://www.grawk.net/~nick/proj/hurd/testtrans/ It should also be noted that this behavior does not occur under gnu/linux. Any insights would be appreciated! -- ouputs of two consecuttive runs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/nick/proj/hurd/testtrans$ ./test-random Killed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/nick/proj/hurd/testtrans$ ./test-random oy foo bar baz quux 886067709 shiz cor squid -- end -- as always, nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.fargus.net/nick Developer - Systems Engineer - Mad System Guru - MOO Sales He picks up scraps of information/He's adept at adaptation Because for strangers and arrangers/Constant change is here to stay
