2.1.65, exception, fixup overflow

Arnold Hendriks (unilynx@core.dumped.org)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:06:19 +0100 (MET)

When you type 'exit' on the shell line in Midnight Commander 4.0, it
crashes.

Normally, it just dumps core, and you're done

However, it seems that with 2.1.65, it sends a floot of weird chars to the
tty, and floods the syslog with messsages like

Nov 21 16:01:41 failing kernel: mc: Exception at [<c017e8a3>] cr2=80fa119
(fixup: c018b065)
Nov 21 16:01:41 failing kernel: mc: Exception at [<c017e8a3>] cr2=80fa11a
(fixup: c018b065)

Hundreds or thousands of these lines, repeated over and over again, with cr2
increased by one on every line

I know mc has a bug here, but shouldn't the kernel terminate the process
instead of looping and flooding syslog ?

(the system slowed down, the harddisk went crazy while this happened, though
killing mc got rid of the problem)

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