Re: SIGTRAP recieved while trying to call C function from GDB

Jan Kratochvil
2009-09-08T19:21:11Z

> From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org]
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 06:03:37PM +0300, Avi Gozlan wrote:
> > Linux Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)
> > Kernel version: 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5PAE
>
> Is this the latest RHEL kernel? I believe this was a known kernel
> fault around the 2.6.18 era.

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:31:11 +0200, Avi Gozlan wrote:
> Indeed this is not the latest RHEL kernel. It happens on RHEL 5.1

Just a confirmation RHEL-5.1 ptrace in kernel is known it had issues primarily
visible with GDB. It was fixed in general by the RHEL-5.2 kernel.

Sure I would like to recommend the latest RHEL-5.4 instead now having
backported also various ptrace fixes being done upstream.

Thanks,
Jan