Yang Zhiguo wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Anderson" <anderson(a)redhat.com>
To: "Discussion list for crash utility usage,maintenance and development"
<crash-utility(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] a strange thing
> Yang Zhiguo wrote:
>> hi, all
>>
>> When i used crash in a bash script file, a strange thing happened.
>>
>> step 1:
>> I created a bash script file: test.sh and put the following line to the
>> file.
>> crash -i inputfile > stdout
>>
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]# echo "crash -i inputfile > stdout" >
test.sh
>>
>> step 2:
>> I ran the bash script file.
>> But i forgot to create the inputfile, so the tesh.sh process hanguped.
>>
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]# chmod 777 test.sh
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]# ./test.sh
>>
>>
>> step 3:
>> I killed the process in another terminal.
>>
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]# ps aux | grep crash
>> root 2290 1.3 2.6 156064 89648 pts/3 S+ 16:53 0:03 crash
>> -i inputfile
>> root 2310 0.0 0.0 61280 1792 pts/4 S+ 16:56 0:00 grep crash
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]# kill -9 2290
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]#
>>
>> step 4:
>> I continued to use the first terminal. The strange thing happend, that I
>> could not see
>> the command(ex. ls) I inputed, but when I pressed Enter, It was
>> executed. what's wrong?
>>
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]# ./test.sh
>> ./test.sh: line 1: 2290 Killed crash -i inputfile >stdout
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]# a.out CVS gid.c gid.stp Makefile run.sh
>> stdout test.sh
>> [root@rhel51rc2 gid]#
> I'm not sure, but try entering "reset" in that window. It probably is
> due to the killed crash utility leaving the tty in a raw mode.
Yes, it is OK after the "reset" inputted.
But, can we avoid this by patching the crash utility?
Best Regards,
yang
Perhaps, but since you can't catch a SIGKILL, I don't know how.