conftest, uid 0: exited on signal 11 - Normal?

[David N]

On 23/07/07, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
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> David N wrote:
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> > pid 96087 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
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> > Are the conftest core dumps anything to worry about?
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> Actually, these are deliberate.  GNU autoconf will engineer a SEGV
> in a piece of test code in order to test various features of the way
> the OS handles that sort of event.
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> Completely harmless and nothing to worry about at all.
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>         Cheers,
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>         Matthew
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Ohh thanks =) I'm glad the hardware isn't failing.
Looked through the config.log file and pin pointed the segfaulting
part during samba3.

checking if the realpath function allows a NULL argument...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
no

Sorry about the noise

Cheers
David N