Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas?

[Julian Elischer]

Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
> :I had been contemplating making a fake 'struct user' in userland only in
> :order to keep the a.out coredump reader code happy.  The a.out coredump
> :code (see cpu_coredump() in */*/vm_machdep.c) can generate this fake
> :structure in order to keep gdb happy.  But then I realized that a.out
> :coredump debugging was almost totally irrelevant these days.
> :
> :Cheers,
> :-Peter
> :--
> :Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>     Hmm.  How about this... if we keep the guard field at the end of
>     struct user we could #ifdef _KERNEL it so userland doesn't notice it.
> 
>                                                 -Matt

So, Matt, does this solve the original question? (VM Corruption) or 
is it just a fruitful red-herring?

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