In article <19991031142659.A7502@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>,
	ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 12:33:57PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>> > In article <199910291916.VAA01421@father.ludd.luth.se>,
>> > 	ragge@ludd.luth.se (Anders Magnusson) writes:
>> > > Main question:
>> > > Why doesn't it dump core on i386? 
>> > 
>> > I have asked this very question more than one time when I had the same
>> > problem with the pc532 port about 1.5 years ago. I finally gave up and
>> > changed exect to be execve (like it is the case on every port except the
>> > vax and i386). Now I'd just like to know why the vax didn't show up this
>> > problem earlier.
>> > 
>> Tha vax may have showed up this earlier, but I never use shutdown myself
>> so I don't know. Why is shutdown using exect() at all??? 
> 
> Nobody remembers. I couldn't find any trace of an explanation.
> I've changed it to execve().

But I'd still like to know why this doesn't dump core on the i386... :-)

Matthias
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