Using dbx to panic kernel

[Denis Fortin]

In <LARRY.91Apr19073000 at mitra.mitra.com> larry at mitra.mitra.com (Larry Williamson) writes:
>It seems to be quite simple to panic Ultrix 4.1 on a DEC station 5000
>using dbx.

>Dbx a process that does an accept(). While your process is blocked on
>the accept() call, type ^C to terminate the process. Dbx responds
>telling you your process has terminated, now quit dbx. Voila, panic.

>This may be something peculiar to our system, but over the course of
>the last few days we have done this 5 or 6 times with consistant
>results.

Arrrrrgh!

This is *not* peculiar to your system.  We have been experiencing the
same problem on our DECsystem 3100s running Ultrix 4.0!  (and 3.x before
that).

It has gotten to the point that we tell our developpers to "use printfs
instead of using dbx" (!).

Sigh...

Any workaround for this problem would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
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