Hi,
Yes... kaudioserver and sometimes kioslave too becomes immortal when I exit
from KDE in *ALL* 2.2.9 kernels (18, 19, 20, 23).
At my home only 2.2.7 work correctly.
Ciao.
--- Konstantin Boldyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scritto:
> hello
>
> I've noticed strange behaviour of 2.2.9-19mdk. Here is explanation:
>
> If sys_exit call in a user program is missing such program hangs and
> cannot be killed. At all (kill -9 and SysRq will not help). Even if you
> kill that terminal - program itself remains anyway. Only way to kill -
> reboot.
>
> This can lead to weird things..all can be done as nonpriveleged user.
>
> I've tested this with 2.0.36,2.2.1,2.2.8 and non mandrake 2.2.9 - such
> program just dumps core and exits. On 2.2.9-19mdk it becomes
> immortal.. also zero lenght core file is created..
>
> Sample code is enclosed - ELF binary and asm source.
>
> Could someone also prove this?
>
> Konstantin.
>
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/octet-stream name=immortal
> ATTACHMENT part 3 application/octet-stream name=immortal.asm
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