Help tracking down a naughty process

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 31), Adam McLaurin said:
> Since upgrading to 5.2.1-p4-RELEASE last night, I have seen the
> following warnings a few times in my /var/log/messages:
> 
> Mar 31 16:49:14 jake kernel: Warning: pid 37735 used static ldt
> allocation. Mar 31 16:49:14 jake kernel: See the i386_set_ldt man page
> for more info
> 
> Trouble is, by the time I go to check what pid 37735 is, it's already
> terminated without a trace.

Apply this patch:

Index: sys_machdep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/i386/sys_machdep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.91
diff -u -r1.91 sys_machdep.c
--- sys_machdep.c	7 Sep 2003 05:23:28 -0000	1.91
+++ sys_machdep.c	22 Oct 2003 16:52:49 -0000
@@ -464,8 +464,8 @@
 	if (!(uap->start == LDT_AUTO_ALLOC && uap->num == 1)) {
 		/* complain a for a while if using old methods */
 		if (ldt_warnings++ < NUM_LDT_WARNINGS) {
-			printf("Warning: pid %d used static ldt allocation.\n",
-			    td->td_proc->p_pid);
+			printf("Warning: pid %d (%s) used static ldt allocation.\n",
+			    td->td_proc->p_pid, td->td_proc->p_comm);
 			printf("See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info\n");
 		}
 		/* verify range of descriptors to modify */

 

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com