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DateTue, 29 Nov 2005 12:44:04 -0500
FromStephen Frost <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.15-rc3
* Chris Shoemaker (c.shoemaker@cox.net) wrote:
> I doubt gdb is in rc.d scripts.  My wild uninformed guess would be
> that some process (maybe xinit?) hit a SEGV and had its own signal
> handler installed that tried to call gdb and attach to the crashing
> process.  I could imagine something like that being useful for
> generating nice userspace stack traces to send to the developers.  I
> think I've seen something similar in some builds.

Not sure if it's relevent, but I think samba does this too...

	Stephen
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