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Re: [RFA] "continue" after "attach" fails on sparc64-solaris
> > This was what threw me off an immediate reply. I doubt the kernel's
> > got a bug like this, since Solaris tools use the auxv data. So we
> > must have an error when reading it. Maybe the format is different
> > than we expect (32-bit vs 64-bit fields)?
>
> It's been a while, but I remember inspecting the memory contents
> of what was supposed to be the AUXV region, and couldn't make any
> sense out of it at the time, even after trying to change sizes
> to 32bit or 64bit. If I get a chance, I'll look at it again.
Some additional data: I wasn't seeing this problem on neither our
Solaris 2.8 nor our 2.10 machine... Perhaps we're missing a patch
on our 2.9 machine. Not sure - I'll see if I can ask our sysadmin
to contact Sun about it.
--
Joel