truss crashing process

[Alexander Best]

hi there,

i was trying to attach truss to chromium via

'truss -p 18445' and got:

[...]
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-- UNKNOWN SYSCALL -14720592 --
write(-14720976,0x8080808080808000,0)		 = 41 (0x29)
select(94,0x6acd,{0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 70 71 72 73 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 84 87 88 91},0x1,{0.85048848 }) = 73 (0x49)
-- UNKNOWN SYSCALL 303120384 --
#94(0x0,0x0,0x5e,0xb6cd600,0x83ed780,0x3dae410)	 = 189 (0xbd)
truss: Cannot malloc -14740096 bytes for fd_set array: Cannot allocate memory

... this is 100% reproducable, if i wait long enough. this will crash truss
along with chromium.

using '-f' in addition to the flags above gives me:

[...]
truss: Cannot malloc -4220992 bytes for fd_set array: Cannot allocate memory
otaku% truss: can not attach to target process: No such process

strange thing though, when i redirect the first command via '> bla 2>&1', truss
leaves behind a core file, because it segfaults. without redirecting the
output, no core file gets created, because truss doesn't segfault.

cheers.
alex