[SWLUG] how hard can it be... to get a core dump

[Dave Cridland]

On Thu Sep 25 15:52:16 2008, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> the -r6 says run 6 times. On the 5th run, prg2lout (the program lout
> runs) exits with status 1 (and it shouldn't).

I'm not sure I understand. An exit with status 1 won't cause a core  
dump. A core dump is caused by either a segfault or an abort, not a  
bad exit. An exi of 1 is normally called by the process calling  
exit(1), or return 1 from main(). Either is running the process to  
conclusion.

Dave.
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