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Re: gdb: "Bad things happen"

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From: Linus Benedict Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: gdb: "Bad things happen"
Date: Sunday, March 15, 1992 - 5:03 pm

The "bad things" error is a message that happens when the memory manager

gets a request for a page not in the users process-space, which

shouldn't be possible (as those errors should be trapped by the

segmentation handler).  However, ptrace() does some mucking around with

the memory, and it had a bug (now fixed, I hope) that is probably the

reason for this.  I'm happy most of it seems to work, though. 


                Linus
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