Re: Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty

From: J.R. Blain (cowboyat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 20:14:21 PST

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    Debian 2.2 (potato)
cowboy@cowboy:~$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
Segmentation fault
cowboy@cowboy:~$ id
uid=1000(cowboy) gid=1000(cowboy) groups=1000(cowboy),29(audio)
cowboy@cowboy:~$ uname -a
Linux cowboy 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 00:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown

Chip Mefford wrote:
> 
> RH 7.1
> 
> [nor_user@crow nor_user]$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> [nor_user@crow nor_user]$ uname -a
> Linux crow 2.4.3-12 #1 Fri Jun 8 15:05:56 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

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