"killed" message!

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Wed May 28 15:22:54 EDT 2014


On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:48:04 +0300, Nada Saif said:

> I created a system call that deals with files - when I try to test the
> system call .
> I got a "killed " message. What this means?

It probably means either your system call or your test program is
buggy and generating a signal along the way.  Do you see anything
informative in dmesg?

(Also, 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals' is your friend,
it will give you more info in dmesg if a process is killed by a signa)
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