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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeeder.toronto.ican.net!newsfeeder.servtech.com!post.servtech.com!cyber2.servtech.com!not-for-mail From: smc@cyber2.servtech.com (shawn carey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Working programs DIE on 2.2 RELEASE. Please help! Date: 21 Mar 1997 22:52:50 GMT Organization: ServiceTech, Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5gv3g2$kbs$1@post.servtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyber2.servtech.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37564 Hello, We have been running a program of ours on FreeBSD, all the way back to FreeBSD release 1.1. We are now having a problem with this program when we try to run under gdb on 2.2-RELEASE, where gdb reports "Process killed due to text file modification". Now, if I look at the date of the executable with ls -l, it is indeed changing. What could we be doing to make this happen? It is also worth noting that when we ran under 2.2-ALPHA, we would occasionally see gdb reload our executable (and sometimes even shared libraries) between runs of the program when nothing had been rebuilt. The dates on the shared libs would change also, and we don't even run as root!?! How could we do that? Whatever we're doing wrong, 2.2-RELEASE is tighter than previous releases, since this is the first time gdb has actually stopped the program from running when this anomaly occurs. Attempts to make sense of this have been met with rigid opposition. Gdb stops in a different place almost every time and the program appears to run fine when started from the shell directly, although the executable's date sometimes changes when we do this. Losing the ability to debug this program has given me the ambition to find out what's wrong. Does anyone know what has changed between 2.2-BETA and 2.2-RELEASE that might give me a clue? Any and all replies are greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Shawn Carey