I have to admit that I'm puzzled by this, and I don't know where else
to ask, so here goes...
One of my interests is in MUSH's (Multi-User SHells), and in relation
to one of them that I'm a regular on, I run what's called a bot that
pretends to be Eliza the Psychotherapist.
Since the current version thereof sometimes runs away with processor
time, I decided to 'nice' it to a low priority - and this is where the
problems started...
I can RELIABLY cause Eliza to coredump by simply running the following
command:
Q> nice -n 15 bot Amush.CX 4190
Note that "-n 15" as that is CRITICAL - any value other than 15 (at
least, those in the range 5 to 19) and Eliza runs fine - I'm currently
running her with 16 instead of 15 - but with 15 there, she coredumps
every time...
For reference, ver_linux produces the following:
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux ps.cus.umist.ac.uk 2.2.1 #1 Mon Feb 1 13:22:18 GMT 1999 i586 unknown
Kernel modules found
Gnu C 2.7.2.3
Binutils 2.9.1.0.4
Linux C Library 0.7.so*
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.0.7
Linux C++ Library 2.8.0*
Procps 1.2.7
Mount 2.7l
Net-tools 1.33
Kbd 0.94
Sh-utils 1.16
Best wishes from Riley.
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