upstart init and coredumping...

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Scott James Remnant<scott at netsplit.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 21:50 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> Another question I have. IIRC I have a bug open for coredumping
>> in upstart if it attempts to chdir to a non-existent directory and
>> subsequently coredumps. It appears that if upstart 0.5.0 execs a
>> non-existent command it also coredumps as well. Is this a known issue?
>> Has it been fixed in 0.6.x?
>>
> The core dump comes from the child process abort()ing, so strictly
> speaking it's not Upstart that's core dumping - but it is confusing.
>
> This was fixed in revision 1112
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~scott/upstart/0.6/revision/1112
>
> I believe that 0.5.2 onwards have this fix, so yes 0.6.0 is fixed too.

Thanks for the info Scott. I'll forward this to my dev team.
Cheers!
-Garrett