Re: segfault message supressed with su -c

["Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>]

On 09/11/2012 05:19 PM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Ondrej Oprala wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've written a tiny patch that should fix this issue with su:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747592.
>> None of the shells' output propagates back
>> to the shell where su was called (except TCSH, which reports segfault
>> to stdout; I've tested this with sh,ksh,zsh,bash).
>> So, with this patch, su should print a warning if
>> WIFSIGNALED(status)&&  WCOREDUMP(status) is true.
>
> Good catch!
>
>> +	      fprintf (stderr, _("Segmentation fault (core dumped)\n"));
>
> Maybe the error message should point out that it
> was not su which dumped core ... ;-)

Maybe not. Consider:

monitor_1 timeout 2 'su -c command'

You might as well just say "core dumped",
and leave the investigation as to what
cored exactly to inspection of the core file.

cheers,
Pádraig.